Music for Film, Video, Motion Pictures
A film score is essentially the background music of a motion picture (film or video). From the beginning of movies, it has been widely known that music can increase the emotional intensity of a scene: transforming fun into hilarious, tense into edge-of-your seat, sad into a puddle of tears. Music is an essential ingredient to great film making.
Shadows of shadows passing. It is now 1831, and as always I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry has indefinite sensations, to which end music is inessential. Since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception, music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry. Music without the idea is simply music. Without music or an intriguing idea, color becomes pallor, man becomes carcass, home becomes catacomb, and the dead are but for a moment motionless. - Edgar Allen Poe
My musical compositions have always developed out of images first. So for me, writing music for motion pictures is a natural process. I see a scene and react to it with the language of music. In essence, the scene becomes my muse and floods my mind with ideas. Like a log in a torrent of water, the music is directed by the images of the film. Many times it is a surprising result but always rewarding...almost a catharsis.
My influences are many, however, I have always been drawn toward the modernist music that began in 50's cinema. Names like Bernard Herrmann, Alex North, Ennio Morricone, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Alex Courage, Fred Steiner are my film hero's. Sprinkle in a little Stravinsky, Ravel, Satie, Bartok, Copeland, Glass, Scheonberg and pop culture for good measure and you have my musical pallet.
If you are an artist, film maker, videographer, cartoonist, or intersted in using my music, send me a note. I am always looking for more work.
Last Completed Project
Film: Nothing Personal - 2010
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Film: Nothing Personal - 2010
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Film: The Dead Collectors from Dan Voltz
Genre: Horror / Comedy
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Overature from Sweet © Stan O'Daffer ASCAP Genre: Epic info |
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Frolic from Sweet © Stan O'Daffer ASCAP Genre: Comedy info |
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Blade from Sweet © Stan O'Daffer ASCAP Genre: Epic info |
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Main Theme from Hallow © Stan O'Daffer Genre: Horror |
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The First Interview from Hallow © Stan O'Daffer Genre: Horror |
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Overdose from Hallow © Stan O'Daffer Genre: Horror |
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Cleansing of the Soul from Hallow © Stan O'Daffer Genre: Horror |
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Snowflakes from Distance © Stan O'Daffer Genre: Narrative info |
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