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Monthly Archives: November 2010
A case for ignoring directors
Today I am going to rock the boat… There was a paper written in 2000 entitled “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments” The report states that, for a given skill, incompetent people will: tend to overestimate their own level of skill; fail to recognize genuine [...]
Themes are not just for characters
I am currently scoring a feature film called “Comforting Skin”. Right now I am in the planning stages, setting goals for the score and there is an approach I plan on taking I’d like to discuss here. This is a dramatic piece with horror, suspense and some supernatural elements. Because of the genre, this is [...]