Cerrabore posted: Okay, I lied; there's a third major reason. The third reason is that dozens of composers and arrangers work interchangeably to complete one man's score without any thought to unified vision or creativity. It's simply unacceptable. Writing good music isn't easy, though Hans "I can write that in my sleep" Zimmer may disagree (the quote refers to the "old fashioned woodwind runs" he wrote for At World's End). Reading interviews with Zimmer, you notice that Zimmer is a casual, easy-going guy. In fact, he's so easy-going that he gets lazy and has others write music for him, and when these others break out into their own, they hire their own others to write their scores. It's like a pyramid scam.
Cerrabore posted:Media Ventures does indeed give up and coming composers a chance for experience, but it's still a fact that the head guy gets a lot of his music written for him. One function of the apprentice system has always been to alleviate the workload of the master. This is reasonable in manual production, but in art? Also, how valuable is the experience if it teaches composers to write in cliched, predictable patterns?
Tatooine_native posted:Where in the movie does the first part of that music come from?
