by Tristan | Apr 26, 2017 | Drama, Film, News, Short Film
Late last year I was fortunate enough to work on my first short film in London. The film is called “Forgive” and it follows a tragic story of a family torn apart by not just cancer, but a startling deathbed confession. With its focus around the...
by Tristan | May 20, 2016 | Drama, Film, Review
Recently I’ve been enjoying two great works on the art of film soundtracks; the Star Wars Oxygen podcasts and Doug Adams’ book The Music of Lord of the Rings. Both provide a blow-by-blow account of all the music that appears on the soundtracks of those respective film...
by Tristan | May 6, 2015 | Compositions, Drama, Suspense
Everyone has heard of suspense. It’s a film genre in its own right and has a very distinctive sound. You can hear it in the cue below called Halls of Regret, a slow meandering cue with a dark foreboding sound. That distinctive sound is created by writing not...