Guest Speaker: Larry Grouppe

Film-Music Composer

• Writes originals for features, TV (Cable Guy).
• You need a "good handshake" between songs.
• Allocate money for popular music.
• Paid as a package deal-responsible for paying musicians and then he gets the leftovers.
• Composers shape things about what's going on in the scene.
• Reads script and starts writing themes during preproduction, some composers are brought in super deep into post stage.
• Spotting sessions- watch film first time, turn temporary music off, don't want to be influenced. Temp tracks can't stay, hence the name.
• Check out Bernard Herman- driving down street in Psycho.
• Emotional complexity completely governed by music. (John Williams).
• What is the emotional content and how can you express it musically? 
• The Contender- "Low Triumph." 
• Doesn't go in linear order of film.