Film Composer

The traditional role of a film composer is to provide the orchestral dramatic underscore to accompany a motion picture for film or television. Working with the director, the film score composer creates a film score that serves to convey the mood and emotion of the various scenes of the movie. A film composer may perform all of the roles of a music editor, programmer, orchestrator, music sueprvisor and copyist for a small production or may supervise a large staff of specialists when scoring a major motion picture. It is important for a film score composer to be well versed in current technology including sequencing which is used early in the scoring process to produce preliminary tracks, and may be used for entire scores on lower budget projects.