Frequent Poster
Posted Today, 03:05 PM
This is something that has crossed my mind.
The ideal thing for a composer is not to be typecasted of course, but I see more and more in Hollywood, that that's the norm!
As a starting film composer, if I ever would be typecasted I'd like to be in the romantic period drama genre.
I feel it's the closest to my general style and character, and it's the music I'd love to compose most and that moves me the most.
What is yours?
Navigation Officer
Posted Today, 03:22 PM
I wouldn't and couldn't ever be a composer. But Action/Adventure all the way for me! Though I'd rather leave that to the experts.
The Contrary
Posted Today, 03:55 PM
But Action/Adventure all the way for me!
Yup.
Izena duen guztia omen da.
Frequent Poster
Posted Today, 04:33 PM
I have a hunch that most people will pick this, that's why i asked. 
The One True John Williams Believer, Keeper of the Faith
Posted Today, 04:34 PM
I would go for drama as well, period or otherwise.
Ars superior est vita hominum.
"We pop out and come into the world and music is there. We didn't invent it - it's all organised in the atmosphere by divinity or whatever. It's a miracle." - John Williams-
I think music is a stream of some kind. It could be blood. It could be water. It could be ether. Whatever it is it seems to be a living, organic force that’s in motion, that serves humanity and is part of humanity and part of what describes us as humans. We sing, play, dance, all the things that we do. And there is a vibrant and great literature we have been given. ... As musicians, we join the stream. We swim in the stream with all the other millions of music makers. It’s a life force, a strong one, surrounding us and we are part of it. -John Williams-
Frequent Poster
Posted Today, 04:36 PM
Whatever genre Barry's Bond scores are considered
Among all the things I have done in my short and pitiful life, becoming an inside joke on JWFAN is the one I'm the least proud of.
The One True John Williams Believer, Keeper of the Faith
Posted Today, 04:37 PM
Whatever Bond scores are considered
I try to hold off an acerbic remark...
Ars superior est vita hominum.
"We pop out and come into the world and music is there. We didn't invent it - it's all organised in the atmosphere by divinity or whatever. It's a miracle." - John Williams-
I think music is a stream of some kind. It could be blood. It could be water. It could be ether. Whatever it is it seems to be a living, organic force that’s in motion, that serves humanity and is part of humanity and part of what describes us as humans. We sing, play, dance, all the things that we do. And there is a vibrant and great literature we have been given. ... As musicians, we join the stream. We swim in the stream with all the other millions of music makers. It’s a life force, a strong one, surrounding us and we are part of it. -John Williams-
Frequent Poster
Posted Today, 04:38 PM
I would try to avoid typecasting, of course (that's the politically correct answer).
But I would like the spectrum between dramas (of all kinds) and more heroic stuff, especially sci fi. I would like to compose something that requires a Georges Delerue-like melancholy, as that is very close to my heart. That would be in the dramas, then.
Frequent Poster
Posted Today, 04:43 PM
Whatever Bond scores are considered
I try to hold off an acerbic remark...
"How dare you! I don't know what you said, but how dare you....!"
Among all the things I have done in my short and pitiful life, becoming an inside joke on JWFAN is the one I'm the least proud of.
Regular Poster
Posted Today, 05:02 PM
Erotic thrillers.
Preferably with Brian De Palma.
Frequent Poster
Posted Today, 05:03 PM
Erotic thrillers.
Preferably with Brian De Palma.
i didn't see that coming...
Let's cook
Posted Today, 05:16 PM
Speechless
Posted Today, 05:24 PM
John Williams's Shrink
Posted Today, 05:52 PM
Sci-fi.
Rich in Fish!
Posted Today, 05:55 PM
That's hard. I would never want to be typecasted as a composer, it'd be awful. But if it had to be typecasted in a specific genre, I'd take romantic dramas. Fantasy and action can produce awesome things for a composer, but to write that kind of music all the time is exhausting in the sense that it dilutes the quality of your body of work. If all John Williams wrote in his massive career was Star Wars, then it'd be rather boring as a whole. It'd be the same if all Howard Shore wrote was LotR style music (in fact LotR sounds so much more satisfying just because its sort of an anomaly in his usual career).
But I could live happily with having a career full of diverse beautiful themes for various romantic films like Georges Delerue or Phillipe Rombhi, Of course, it's still limiting, but that's the nature of typecasting.
Music Muse Reviews: "Escape From Tomorrow by Abel Korzeniowski
John Williams's Shrink
Posted Today, 06:03 PM
That's what Cliff Eidelman does nowdays.
Rich in Fish!
Posted Today, 06:04 PM
Such a talented guy, sadly wasted. 
Music Muse Reviews: "Escape From Tomorrow by Abel Korzeniowski
Speechless
Posted Today, 06:13 PM
This is an anatomically correct Black-throated Magpie-Jay
Posted Today, 10:09 PM
I don't know.
I just would like to be called 'The Next Williams' 
I hope Episode III is Called 'Revenge of the Sith'
