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Jan 24 2007

A Composer’s Point of View

by Adam Gorgoni

One of the most exhilarating, fascinating, and yes, terrifying things about being involved in the filmmaking process is finally experiencing an audience respond to your work.
You spend all your waking hours for months (for directors it’s often years) crafting something, trying to create real emotional experiences, and you watch each scene in your film hundreds of times. It’s impossible not to lose some perspective. Is this funny? Is this cheesy? Does it feel overdone? Can I squeeze more emotion out of that melody? Am I serving the character fully with this theme?
And then the moment of truth. People who don’t know you and are completely outside of the process come to the theater to be affected.
The screenings of “Starting Out In The Evening,” the film I scored that’s here at Sundance, have surprised me. The film is quite emotional and I expected people to respond to that. But people have been laughing and chuckling in a very sympathetic way in places that we were not necessarily planning on. There has been an energy in the room that I just did not expect. You can tell in the first ten minutes or so that they are getting on board with the characters, catching nuances and details that you only hope for as a filmmaker. And that is a very gratifying thing.

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