Hi all, so good to be here! I’m a new member and am starting out as a music editor based in London. I have a strong background in music including an undergraduate degree and full-time work in a BBC radio station as a producer and station sound assistant.
I’m looking to get any kind of experience in the tv and film industry as a music editor, and would be particularly interested in meeting composers who might like some support. All other introductions also welcome!
Very keen to get involved where I can and volunteer my services in my spare time.
Many thanks
Em
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Hi Emelye! Nice meeting you here. What pulled you towards music editing? It's a fascinating field!
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Hi Roger Hewett, great to meet you! I do a lot of selecting music in my current job, and I think it's so exciting deciding exactly what tracks suit what mood etc. I'm also quite a logical/technical thinker and I take great pleasure in doing all the editing, scoring and mixing side of things. Although I have composed here and there, I get much more satisfaction, personally, out of bringing all the different visions together in the way music editors do. I have a lot of admiration for composers, not an easy thing you do at all! It must take a huge amount of creativity.
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Emelye Moulton ..I understand your attraction to the field. I've worked with a few outstanding music editors over the years. Some of them have been time-crunch lifesavers! Wishing you much success :)
Thank you Roger Hewett, you too!
Hi Anna Skoyles , nice to meet you! I look forward to seeing what projects you have lined up
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Hi and welcome Emelye, cool you are technically minded with regards physical execution of sound/music ideas. Some of my film projects are on hold so I'm aiming for mixed media web pages just to get my ideas out there and wait post vaccine for actual non social distance film. I'm not a "Techie" so will need rely on others (paid) to execute my artistic vision. Some artists are still filming social distance but to me its like being a painter and going to canvas with a trowel, or a surgeon on operating table with a breadknife. I have had nightmares where my feet are stuck in glue and I cannot move to walk, purely from this problem that now faces Directors Covid era, we just cannot make the film in our head. (Unless a lesser, homogenized, state enforced version.) I hope you enjoy Stage 32. Thanks for your share.
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Hi Debbie Croysdale, good to hear from you. It’s certainly tough at the moment but I’m confident there’s light at the end of the tunnel. It’s great that you’re looking to be adaptable, and I’d be more than willing to help should you need any. With another head, it might make what seems like a monumental task a little more manageable!
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@Emelye Thanks for your feedback. At the moment I am looking into a story told by voice over, animation OR still cartoon, photographs interspersed with social distance acting feed AND music. I only just started thinking this way the last four months after I realized I would need to wait until post vaccine to film shorts OR re write them to a lower level. I will keep you posted about music and editing with regard mixed media pages. Rather than do a one stop shop where one person does all tasks, I probably need find an artist for each section. (I approached some businesses who did mix media who just did not grasp my concept and turned out glossy predictable mainstream samples) Paid collaboration does often work because as you say other heads can move monumental tasks, particularly if artists involved have their own unique take on things and understand each others frame of mind.