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…and Danny Elfman was scoring your movie, how would you utilize him?
Would you give him zero input? Would you just give him some idea’s at the spotting session? Would there be a temp track? Would you let Danny himself supervise the film dub? Or would you hold his hand throughout the process?
I would just let him do whatever he wanted to do to make the movie better… and let his imagination run wild! Very few film composers are giving free reign anymore, I would like to see a director give composers more latitude to experiment and be composers instead of negotiators.
Nat
I’d say I would give him the freedom to dig in any spot he wants to but only if it makes the film better. Because after all, that’s the all point.
No, I would obviously not give him free reign. I would try – in as laymen terms as possible – to communicate my ideas, feelings and intentions for the scene and film in general, and only THEN let him run with it. LIke most directors, I guess.
I would communicate some of my ideas, and of course listen to his, to get a good grasp on where we’re coming from. It would be cool to get occasional updates. I sure as hell wouldn’t TEMP the god damned thing.
You can’t go wrong with an Elfman score, so I most likely wouldn’t be sweating over it. The guy knows what he’s doing.
True, but you could just make a very ambitious, low-fi project with strong artistic ambitions. Elfman has been known to take such assignments on occasion, with a low fee and sometimes hardly anything at all.
Ha, ha. Well, let me clarify — you’re a director who’s making a multi-million dollar movie.
First, I would give him like a “mix tape” that has some ideas and musical flavors he might want to consider. Then I’d try to convince him that he’d have the freedom to write music with that kind of melody and creativity that composers did in the 30s, 40, and 50s. Then, during the spotting session, we’d talk more specifically on musical ideas, theme development, so forth. We’d abolish the temp track. And when that’s all done, I’d put him in charge of the film dub, so the sounds effects and music would actually be level. What a concept, huh?
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