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When you know your project’s emotional themes, you will cut an incredible amount of time from your search.
DISTILL YOUR PROJECT DOWN TO ITS EMOTIONAL BASE
This is what film composers do. After meeting with the director to discuss the film’s meaning and concept, the composer immerses him/herself into the film and begins to investigate its emotional essence.You can do the same thing. Here is a simple exercise to try with your own work.
• See yourself in each scene as an eyewitness
to what is happening
• Become emotionally open to the events that occur.
• Freewrite your reactions. (Freewriting is writing that’s done quickly without any self-editing – you just want to get your ideas on paper in a way that you’ll remember)
• After the production is over, take