The music on your film is a powerful tool to deliver fresh perspectives, and believe me: Fresh perspectives are vital. This article goes deep into Audio Perspective, i.e. the music being written from the most compelling perspective in the story. Mastering audio perspective can make your movies far more relevant, relatable, and successful.

If you’ve ever wondered how you can use music to communicate a compelling perspective, this article is for you. Let’s hit it!

Without structure, without recurring motifs, without a backbone, a movie doesn’t stand a chance of being remembered. So, how can a unified film score help a movie be more memorable? Where can composers find these unifying motifs that make a movie awesome, and once we find them how do we organize and weave them into a brilliant tapestry of sound and story?

This post goes deep into the creative process, into the search for the creative motifs that can make a movie into a living beast. When these building blocks are found and sprinkled throughout a movie in both the narrative as well as the score, the movie ends up living on it’s own, independent of the people who created it. It becomes alive.

Choosing great music for your film is easy when you consider that all music has color. If you knew what made a piece of music energizing or relaxed or heavenly or intense, you would undoubtably have an unfair advantage in the wild game of filmmaking.

In my strong opinion, music is color and knowing that makes you stronger as a storyteller. This article takes a deep dive on what causes music to have a specific color and how you can use this knowledge to get an incredible soundtrack for your film.

How can you get the viewers of your film to feel the story viscerally? In a primal way? In order for your work as a storyteller to be received well, this post goes over why it’s so important to frame your work around the idea of emotional impact.

Specifically, this post goes over the factors that contribute (or take away from) the emotional impact of a story. I go in depth about the process of priming the people you work with (including the film composer), and how this one simple process will help you get the most memorable and emotionally impactful film possible.