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What Would You Ask? (composer interviews)

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  1. After some delay, Brad Fiedel:
    http://rejectedfilmscores.125mb.com/bra … rview.html


    The one with Russ should come fairly soon.


    I can't seem to reach John Parker anymore, and his website went down. He lives in another country -- I'm wondering if he's okay, 'cause would it even make news if nobody knew who he was over there?
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  2. If I can turn this topic around slightly...to all those who have done composer interviews, how do you prepare for an interview and what are the actual mechanics you have used for say a phone interview?
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  3. I personally go over their IMDB credits -- make sure there's nothing that needs addressing. I also make sure I know something about their history. If they studied with another famous composer, I am sure to ask them about it; if they wrote or acted in anything, I am sure to ask about it.

    Then I ask basic stock questions, too -- because I am always interested to hear each's answer.

    And of course I give time for fans to suggest questions, which I pick out good/interesting ones of for use.


    I have only done one phone interview, and didn't have the tech to accomplish it right, so I had to revert to improve of: a handheld recorder/player, hled up to the earpiece, after I ask the question and move the phone away to hold it up.

    When you're calling overseas and have to have the compsoer wait while you flip the tape over, well ... you consider text interviews via e-mail.


    Though I have proposed a couple times, if they really want a phone interview, and can record it on their end and send it to me, I'll transcribe it and put the (edited) audio up. I don't have the money to buy the technology. You'll have to shell out a little, unless you got a buddy at a radio station.
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  4. Thanks Justin.

    If an audio interview can be done via something like Skype could would it be possible to record it via something like Audacity?
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  5. Absolutely -- as long as it goes though the sound card. If you can hear it on your speakers, you can record it via Audacity. Make sure to check the settings though. As I pointed out to Thor (I'll have to re-locate the thread), the settings are low; automatically set to mono, low quality, etc. And if you see fuzz when recording nothing, that means some other work has to be done to mute that.

    Audacity (I don't know about the current version), has a tendacy to error in Windows (I never fully looked into it), loosing everything you recorded, and you can't put it back together again unless you have a seperate program, 'cause Audacity, for some stupid reason, saves everything in little ten second chunks in a different speed in the temp folder. So, it's best to save it every five questions, to avoid having to redo everything.
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  6. Thanks again.

    If I did consider doing an interview over the phone I would not be recording it for future broadcast. It would just be as a means for me to have a record of the interview for reference when I write a written version.

    Maybe it would be better to have written questions, though I like the idea (and dread at the same time) of having an interactive dialogue with the subject.
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  7. Yes, it can be fun. Iv'e talked to many composers/musicians over the phone, and most are wonderful people, some just fantastic to talk to. And one guy, well -- let me just say he works for somebody famous, and we spent like ten minutes just having this bizarre coversation of jokes and weird stories, before I even got to who I was and why I was calling -- and I assure you: he wasn't crazy -- he was just a heck of a whacky guy.

    Do some phone interviews -- never know what kind of phone and conversation can be had.
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  8. FalkirkBairn wrote
    Thanks Justin.

    If an audio interview can be done via something like Skype could would it be possible to record it via something like Audacity?


    Except the Gabriel Yared interview, the first I did and lost my English version to, and the e-mail interview with Jim Dooley, all interviews I've done were using Skype. Jeff Danna was the lucky part of it, because he actually *was* a Skype user. I was offered to be called on my mobile (cell if you prefer) for my Hans interview, but I preferred calling them, because I didn't know how to record off it.

    Sadly, Skype has changed it outlook about 3rd party applications and there is now no direct way to record from Skype directly, using an application that connects itself to Skype. Once I had a phone call to Hans recorded through ProTools of all things and that was a pretty fantastic experience.
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  9. Interview with Richard Lewis Warren now up. I realize now I forgot to let you all know I was taking questions!

    http://rejectedfilmscores.125mb.com/ric … rview.html

    Sadly, I also forgot to let you know question were being taken for one with Peter T. Meyers, too.
    It's already turned in -- just awaiting his reply.
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  10. PawelStroinski wrote
    If you don't have this question prepared already:

    How did you work with Elmer Bernstein and Maurice Jarre? How precise were the sketches you had? Did you *actually* have any freedom with the way you handled orchestrations, for example giving a line to an instrument on your own?


    After about three years of delay, you'll be getting your answer to that one tomorrow. And good news -- it's a long, fascinating one.


    (Patrick Russ interview)
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  11. Interview now up:
    http://rejectedfilmscores.125mb.com/pat … rview.html
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  12. Great interview and thanks for asking my question!
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