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In Music

7 Soundtracks That Defined Their Film’s Genre

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Watch any movie, and you’d agree that music carries an incredible amount of weight in storytelling. So often, you walk away from the experience not thinking twice about a score. But every so often, there’s a score that stands out. Not only has it created an essential background for the film, but it’s set the standard for other films within its genre. That’s what makes the films on this list so special. There’s magic when a great scene meets the perfect score. Magic that continues long past the release of a film.

In Case Studies

Case Study: Using Musicbed to Soundtrack a Hulu Documentary

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Director Phil Wall works across the commercial and narrative space, with films like The Book Keepers, The Passing Game, and more. One of his commercial clients, GORUCK, is behind one of the most rigorous and challenging athletic competitions on the planet, called GORUCK Selection, which puts athletes through more than 48 hours of physical, mental, and even spiritual torment. So, when they brought up the idea of capturing the competition, Phil knew there was an opportunity. He just didn’t know what kind.

In Case Studies

Case Study: Using a Musicbed Artist to Set the Tone for a Network Series

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At Musicbed, we preach the importance of music every day, but sometimes we don’t have to preach at all. There are filmmakers who just get it. The creatives at Blue Ox Films know the weight and importance of music as much as we do, and we had the chance to talk with them about their work on The CW’s All American Stories.

In Filmmaking

Barry Jenkins: Using Music To Create Emotion and Empathy for Characters

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In Directing

Then, a Hurricane Hits: Filmmaker Chris Murphy on the Production of YETI’s Kekoa

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The beauty (and terror) of creative projects is that things don’t always go to plan. Funding falls through, actors get sick, and you have to pivot your vision to something new. Then, you have the extreme version of that, which Director/DP/Editor Chris Murphy experienced during the production of YETI’s short film Kekoa.

In Music

5 Ways to Make Your Films Better With Music

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The value of music in a film isn’t always talked about, or expressed explicitly, so why would they pay for better music if to them it just serves as a filler or background to the imagery? We know it’s so much more than that, so we thought we’d take a shot at explaining why quality music matters for your films.

In Music

Mix Tapes and Algorithms: Thoughts on Music Discovery

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It used to be that music discovery happened between people. Friends would recommend new songs, DJs would play new bands, music writers would review new albums. And then, if something interested us enough, we’d go buy it. We’d listen to it. Over and over again. And if we fell in love with it, we’d recommend it to others. That’s how it went for a long time. Music discovery was this intentional, symbiotic relationship between music lovers and the music they loved.

In Cinematography

Making a Film Without Knowing How to Make a Film

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It may have started as a film school assignment, but the short film AWAY quickly became a film school in itself for Zach Zombek (a.k.a. Convolv). Over the course of its three-year production, the demands of the film forced Zach to master everything from cinematography to visual effects to scoring. “That’s one reason we kept the team so small,” Zach told us. “It forced me to learn these things instead of having someone else do them for me.”