In my video series “Anatomy of a Cue,” I dissect different films that I have scored. I expound upon how the main musical theme or idea was birthed, the thought process behind it, the choices of instrumentation and arranging taken, to how these creative choices helped craft and propel the narrative. I hope you enjoy them, and find them helpful.
In this video, I do a deep dive into a few cues from a PBS documentary that I scored. I talk about the instruments behind the score by recreating signature sounds from the film, to my overall approach to writing music for a documentary film.
In this video, we take a look at the Aliyah Project, a documentary film where dance and music help tell the stories of persecution from Ukrainian Jews.
I discuss how I used music theory to accentuate the lyrics of a traditional Ukrainian poem, as well as how I created the score for the entire project from a script and movement drawings from the choreographer.