Bespoke Compositions are the ultimate icing on the cake for your production, offering support for each scene, mood and character. How different would the original Star Wars films have been without John Williams’ brilliant score, Inception without the ground breaking work of Hans Zimmer or Elf without the uplifting music of John Debney? With our award winning team of writers, we can help you create unforgettable moments and form a deeper connection with your audience for each scene as you tell your story, from a singular, minimalist note to an intensely emotional rollercoaster. So if you would like to chat please get in touch and if you are unfamiliar with the process of commissioning bespoke music, please read on…
The perfect starting point to discuss bespoke music for any production is the script.
Any earlier and the story and characters aren’t formed enough to be able to pinpoint the right musical moods. With a script there’s a sense of time and place that provides a context for the style and emotions of the music to be identified.
This means going through the script and “spotting” where music is needed or could
be appropriate. Time spent during this stage will give your production flow and clarity ensuring that music is supportive to the narrative and doesn’t overpower.
This can be one of the most fun parts where you get to list all your favourite tracks
and how you imagined them fitting into the film. Our job is to fully explain the production requirements that would go into creating those musical visions and how best this can be achieved.
We create a spreadsheet with all the bespoke options and work out the approximate
costs for the music to be produced and delivered. While individual track estimates won’t be exact, the overall total won’t be too far off. This exercise shows what needs to be trimmed; whether there’s too much music, too ambitious content or just costing more than the budget allows.
As we have access to various production facilities, this stage would involve us
creating various demonstration tracks so that you can be fully involved in the creation process. It also ensures the music will perfectly fit the flow of your production before the final recordings are made.
Due to the vast knowledge base within the HPM family we are able to take care of
the whole production process in house. This ensures that your vision is kept front and centre all the way through the production process and allows us to ensure the highest quality of the final delivery.
We are able to provide you with all the correct deliverables, in all the right formats,
you’ll need to take to the editing suite. Our bespoke process ensures you have multiple versions of our music as well as stems so your editor has complete flexibility.
Gathering the information needed to fill out a cue sheet can be time consuming so
we make this easier for our clients by providing everything you’ll need as part of the delivery. We’re also on hand to help with this process and answer any questions you might have. Our support to you doesn’t stop at delivery.
As the search for bespoke music can start quite earlier on in the production processes
it can sometimes be advisable, especially for larger productions, to seek insurance to cover the cost of your music budget should funding be an issue at a later point. We are able to advise on this and provide you with reputable contacts within the business to get the right advise.
It’s true, our support really doesn’t stop when we deliver an audio product to you.
We want to see your production succeed and value our clients so we build a working relationship for the future. To see a client return on a future production is the biggest compliment for us and we are eager to meet new clients all the time so get in touch and tell us all about your latest project.
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