Finding A Composer

I went out into the real world in an attempt to find the composer for my film. For finding a composer, I started with people who I knew wrote songs and are well accomplished on their instruments. Darragh Waters, who is a friend of mine was one person who I talked to about composing for my film. We are in a band together and I’ve known him my whole life so I knew he was capable but I ruled him out. He didn’t have a set up to record proper audio, and the software he uses to make his music pieces is computer based, which I wanted to stay away from. 

The second person who I got in contact with was Joseph Thomson who is my neighbours nephew who has been writing songs since the age of 11. Trained on piano and guitar, Joe has travelled Europe performing his songs and he to is very accomplished on guitar as well as singing and piano. I found that his songs are mostly acoustic pop songs and I just felt that the tone of his voice and style wouldn’t suit what I wanted. Even his piano playing is quite bouncy and I just wouldn’t feel right using him.

 The final person I looked at and the person I decided to use is Colin Hurley. There are a number of reason why I chose him. Firstly, he has composed for short films before including our recent film “PSYCHODELIC’. He has been playing music for 20 years and I have heard many of his scores. He has a professional set up and the main thing that swung it for me is that he is in the film. He will know the tone of it and what I want so we can work closely together to get that score. He will see the footage as it is occurring and just by being there will get an overall sense of what the film is and how it should sound and that is why I picked him. It was a good experience though looking for another aspect of telling my story as I would usually find royalty free music so it was a good process to go through.