Sound for film / Original score

Music written to the cut.

Themes and cues composed against picture. Melody when the scene asks for it, and silence when the scene is already doing the work.

A composer at a keyboard, watching a picture monitor in a sunlit studio.

How a score moves

  • A spotting pass on the cut: where music enters, holds, or gets out of the way.
  • Themes for characters, places, and the turn of the story, sketched before the long cues.
  • Cues built to the locked picture, not a library track dropped on the timeline.
  • Revisions against notes from the director and the editor, played back in the room.
  • Stems delivered so the mix can still breathe around dialogue.