buckaroo

Yes exactly Miguel, he must have some foresight to hear all the parts when playing the "one" sound of a piano.. Listen to something like Minority Report or "Barry's Kidnapping" in CE3K, would love to hear how these sounded on a piano as they are mostly Atonal

Listening to War of the Worlds, I'm wondering how he comes up with his atonal stuff on the piano. It'd sound so different to the final result... EXACTLY what i was tring to mention (although i probably didnt put it across very well) Just sitting at a piano doing the atonal "plink plonks" on a piano, when you know your writing it for a choir and sustained strings etc?!!!! - brilliant!

Wow thanks - you know your stuff! I thought this would be the way he did it.. It just seems amazing that the whole orchestral peices start off from one piano! EVEN the dissonant non-tonal stuff which works so well with the Orchestra (ie: Minority Report, AI,and Close encounters) all start off with piano keys?! Amazing..

He certainly does!! Is there any interviews or videos online where he explains his first infant composing stages to a new film?

HI there - Fantastic site!! I am a newbie here and am in love with JW scores.. I am also a musician wanting to get into soundtrack writing, and studying the master himself is amazing - this man is a god! However i would love to know how JW scores a film? I have collected interviews with him about how he ALWAYS watches a film first in the projection room. Then i suppose he gets a video/tape of the film to watch back at home??? BUT how does he score?? - i take it he sits at the piano watching the film (once its "spotted") and composes scenes at the piano - now this is genius in itself but i just want to know : 1 - how does he write so that all the little hits on the film (crashes/movements) sync to his writing on an acoustic piano? without timecode and resorting to electronics? 2 - how the hell does he write with a piano knowing what parts will be played by strings/flute/brass etc?! - that must be really hard?!, and transcribing the piano sound to a full 100 peice orchestra with instruments?? Many thanks, & i apologise again for the questions :oops: