INSTRUCTION: This week, you are required to write the final paper (1000 words) about your most favorite film music. It must be an original film score composed for contemporary cinema. I would like you to focus on the following in your paper:
the composer and his/her craft
the relationship each composer has with the moving image
narrative
technical considerations
personal motivations in composing
the relationships composers have with their directors
and the composer's own creative process
Any Hollywood or foreign-language film score is accepted. Please find answers to the questions above and give a fuller picture of the process that characterize film composers and their work.
21st c. Film Scores (Links to an external site.)
Contemporary Cinema (Links to an external site.)
Influential Film Composers (Links to an external site.)
Film Composers