When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.
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Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.
Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.
With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.