What is your favourite thing to score? It’s difficult to say “no” to anything these days, isn’t it - but the music that really gets me fired-up is tense, emotion-lead orchestral/choral music. I’m just not a Romcom kind of a guy!
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Ooh good question! I love dark, psychological, thought provoking stuff. Often with a horror inflection. With you on the rom-coms, though actually the genre I struggle to score most is comedy. So difficult to nail that without sounding ridiculous!
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Joanna Karselis Same here. I actually don't even bother with comedies as I don't think I would write anything good at all. Anything Horror or Dramatic....all day.
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I've never written a comedy per se, but I've written and MDed more pantos than you can shake a bauble at: I think the key to successful comedy is not to write it as a comedy. If the joke is funny, it should be played with a straight face.
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Toby James Interesting. I do find most comedy's with comedy music to be a bit cringy. My favorite type of comedy is in moments of tense and uneasy situations.
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Great advice Toby James. It does depend on what the director wants though. If you've got a director who's on the same page then you're fine, but occasionally I've dealt with directors who want to lean into that "comedy" feel which makes life very difficult!