{"id":1608,"date":"2025-05-29T14:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/studioinsider\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:10:21","slug":"compose-music-in-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/studioinsider\/2025\/05\/29\/compose-music-in-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Contain your composure: Music in TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-src=\"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/studioinsider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/05\/42f45d69-3998-477d-aed8-e0ccd2c14bab-e1748522490525-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Birch compose music editor\" class=\"wp-image-1610 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/900;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Simon Birch working in one of the studios at Dan Jones Music (Credit: Dan Jones).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cacacf7d820c4417d9606f875b1bf69c\"><em>Composers and music editors have one of the toughest jobs in production, storytelling through noise and sound. How do they compose and how does it fit into a project?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d0ce72601293208d7186cf9d36911c86\">Imagine the climax of a TV show, your protagonist faces their biggest obstacle, it\u2019s an emotional dialogue, the culmination of several episodes of foreshadowing, and\u2026 it&#8217;s silent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-59690ca6ba58c3d1496e1f63f65ce2a3\">You may not think about the score of a TV series as you\u2019re watching it, but there is a whole subsection of the industry that exists to complete auditory storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5dba5e626e0e973287bb76b15e837646\">BAFTA winning composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fabermusic.com\/we-represent\/dan-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dan Jones<\/a>, known for Channel 4\u2019s <em>Any Human Heart<\/em>, said composers are, \u201cmaking sure that we create a space that gets the audience as close to those characters as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c86d31e7bc56d5e2e1f431bd66da9574 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-84c8d618c03bacfdb458ca66dc864610\"><strong>\u201cThere&#8217;s a lot of potential distractions and I feel slightly counterintuitively that it&#8217;s the job of film and television composers to help create a bubble where we can really focus on a story.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The logistics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6bc374875d6ca572ed121c5f9c672e68\">National Geographic score assistant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewbouwmeester.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matthew Bouwmeester<\/a> gave a rundown of the semantics of being a composer within a TV crew, and said, \u201cObviously on top of you as a composer there are different people who are higher ranking you in the hierarchy.\u201d He referred to the director, the producers, an executive producer and if there is a bit of budget, they may have a music supervisor as well. \u201cYour editor is probably one of your best friends because he&#8217;s in charge of making the cuts,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c2f3c2bf28db3b39fe28ef7dcefd977b\">An editor might come up with an idea for a scene that they want to present to the director so they show the musicians and ask if they can compose the music. \u201cSo that back and forth between you and the editor is really important because he&#8217;s in charge of the picture, with the director. You have to also navigate through, when you have different opinions coming from different people, creating a common ground&#8230; if you don&#8217;t understand an idea coming from someone just ask why? Have the conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dealing with deadlines<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d013e45561d0c3b1863380d5169df9a1\">His larger projects had some demanding deadlines, he said: \u201cThe National Geographic thing was a lot more intense. In my case, I was a score system meaning I was in charge of the whole cue sheet for all three episodes and it was absolute madness.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-180b0cf626595706546abdc24ab20156\">He discussed the extent of the hours he worked, and how unpredictable they could be. Bouwmeester was essentially \u2018on call\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ea4db38476e10ad45d7f30a51e7b8352\">He said: \u201cFor one episode it took me four hours just to figure it out because I had to listen back to everything, and I did that for three episodes. I\u2019d get a new version of the cut of the episode every five days or so every week. So it was kind of intense but manageable. It was pretty much: I work as soon as it came through. If it came through at two pm I would need to have it ready by the next morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More artistic freedom<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8347774741ee676ea96319580a04e05f\">Bouwmeester\u2019s experience was fast-paced and unique. Less preparation can cause a more hectic workflow. Dan Jones remarked that he is grateful when he gets more time for artistic inspiration, \u201cmore often than not these days, you get the phone call before they&#8217;ve started shooting so that you can start developing ideas. And that&#8217;s really important for me. I have quite a high shooting ratio. That&#8217;s to say I like to write a lot and then narrow it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-943afbd177005863eff664fd4279f166\">\u201cSo I start writing as soon as I&#8217;ve read the script. And what I try to do is write <em>too much,<\/em> so I can then be selective about what actually ends up on the project. As soon as we start getting assemblies from the edit suite, obviously I&#8217;ll be writing musical ideas with specific characters in mind, with specific emotional impacts in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7c8b027ba3e9ddf1ccc3132022309e6f\">Jones has just finished a series coming out on ITV called <em>Code of Silence<\/em>. He has co-composed it with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evelyn.co.uk\/about\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dame Evelyn Glennie<\/a>, who&#8217;s a world-famous percussionist and composer and a pioneer of solo percussionists. She&#8217;s commissioned more than 100 classical works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-946a87401353c56fbc54dcb2ca50d25f\">For the ITV project, Jones said, \u201cwe started recording before they&#8217;d even started shooting some of the episodes, but we knew from the script that there&#8217;s going to be a lot of suspense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cdb2807449e007c7e9d4a4b07c56cdf2\">\u201cSo without having the picture in front of us, there are certain things you can do. And<em> then <\/em>when we get the assemblies and the rough cuts\u2026 I would go back and re-record with her to add  more fine detail on top.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Working with music editors<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-952e1bdf03a6477e2695694a57ce6744\">Jones and Glennie worked alongside music editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4433472\/\">Simon Birch<\/a>. He would translate the improvisations that the composers recorded to fit the picture itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7a9d7bd58370fdbb495adab48e5eec45\">Birch said: \u201cI don&#8217;t really know how similar my particular experience is as a music editor versus other music editors. As I understand it, most music editors will be working in the dub (post-production audio editing) with the mixes right at the end of the production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f0e8919b423a131252075f8f1664604b\">\u201cBut in my case, I&#8217;m working throughout with Dan right from the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d3fdde6ee57599dcf790c36bb3b03dd1\">His work on the score is slightly tedious, but essential to aid the artistic development of Jones and Glennie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e1ea78aa184523e8c4641fdae92645d4\">He said: \u201cI was working through hours, literally, hours of improvisations, trying to find bits that would translate well into music for TV. So it&#8217;s the case of going through all those and picking out bits that might work and then doing some experimental treatments on certain things.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ce276c6ef0a6700c74504aee5581f19d is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-57fcb24f5577447fb9d50151ceccabe5\"><strong>&#8220;I think of it a bit like <em>mining<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-da1148097477b116feb178f48ce8fd05\">\u201cThe way that I work with Dan, he likes to sort of compose freely and not get too bogged down in working to picture unless he really has to. It&#8217;s often a more fruitful way of working, because if you&#8217;re working to picture all the time, it can become a bit contrived.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do we get there?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2adabdfaf80d8d7ced8bf9ced3937f3d\">Getting into composing can be a happy accident at times. If you compose a smaller project, it can lead to something a little bigger, and so forth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5d1c8d4d8a981d7e48922724e294debb\">Jones recalled, \u201c I bumped into somebody in Bristol, and weirdly, the person I met was writing radio jingles, which I have to say really, really didn&#8217;t interest me. I had lots of pretentious ambitions to write big orchestral scores. Yet this guy had got himself a feature film score, but he said he could only write radio jingles. He asked would I help him? So I did.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b1efe29d0daaeaf0dc3d128b1b9b6923\">Ambitious dreams have to start somewhere, and Jones\u2019s hard work on this feature film proved fruitful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-db8307fea3379550a9df2c88f7aafc26\">He said: \u201cInterestingly, the sound team working on it was one of the top sound companies in the country. They&#8217;re called Wounded Buffalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-00143f2fc8b7d3aa00df538a65377473\">&#8220;They could hear I was trying, you know, this youngster working out of his parents&#8217; spare bedroom. And they put my music up in front of some of the most interesting and potentially influential directors working in Britain in documentaries at the time. And I got hired by three of these directors a few weeks later.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advice from the pros<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d76a4d7539de1edf6c82e669540d01fb\">\u201cSo, in other words, because I was doing it with passion, and I believed in it, and I was trying to learn. I got rewarded for the effort and ended up working on a series for Channel 4. I think it&#8217;s about just trying to focus on what you&#8217;re doing at any given time and do it as well as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-28fb38068bd197f6779ef9d94b5eec1c\">Bouwmeester had given similar sentiments, advising prospective composers to, \u201cjust do your thing. It sounds very clich\u00e9 and silly but just do the thing that it&#8217;s true to yourself because I think a natural cycle of a composer is we start out by emulating someone else. A bigger composer than we are, that we like and we aspire to be and we&#8217;re inspired by. Then with time we have to sort of grow out of it and go our own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f1868b473342d5f467d7d64b19fb26ee\">\u201cDon&#8217;t care about it that much. 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