This month, we pay a visit to Joshua Moshier, the talented composer of the popular animated feature, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, which was released by Ketchup Entertainment earlier this year.
I’m setting up for today’s work. Once this cue is approved, the mock-up will become a printed score that the orchestra will perform.
I like to warm up my ears by listening to something genius and inspiring: Today it’s Cinema Paradiso by the great Ennio Morricone.
Early in the process I often work with animatics and rough animation, but today I’m writing to footage that is close to final.
Time for a Zoom chat with director and animator Celia Bullwinkel. I loved scoring her film Sidewalk.
I try to carve out time to develop ideas at the piano, away from the picture.
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Today I’m recording my accordion. Moving air through the bellows gives the music a feeling of shape and breath.
One of the best parts of scoring a film is collaborating with my teammates — music mixer Frank Wolf, music editor Joe Corcoran, Pro Tools Operator Colby Donaldson, orchestrator Dan Brown, and of course our wonderful orchestra, put together by Peter Rotter.
Director Pete Browngardt and lead voice actor Eric Bauza were at the recording session and cheered on the players.
