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Interview with Buffy composer
He gives an interesting insight into the kind of music score Joss was looking for in the early days of the show. |
Tell us about your experience working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
SC: It was great. Stylistically it was great for what I like to do. I like [create] more of a dramatic element. But Buffy was an interesting show because it wasn’t a scary show, it was a serious show with real drama. It elements of suspense, action, and thriller in there. You don’t get bored because you can do a lot of different styles. I like to move around the palette and do a lot of different things. That show was cool for that. In its kind of comic book world – kind of – you are able to explore many different avenues of music. Everyone on the show was top-notch. It was a great experience, and a great career move.
When did you start working on Buffy?
SC:1997, at the beginning of the second season.
Were you the sole composer at that time?
SC: No. That season they alternated composers. The first season they only did 13 episodes, and they had a guy named Walter Murphy. By the time the second season came around they didn’t want to use Walter anymore. I don’t think that [series creator] Joss Whedon was very happy with it. I think he felt he was getting his standard TV music. Now I thought what Walter did was great. I don’t watch the show either. I knew nothing about it when I got the gig.
I think Joss wanted it to be more cinematic. I think the problem with a lot of composing is when people do a TV show they treat it like a TV show. When they do a film they treat it like a film. When they do a video game they treat it like a video game.
I approach them all the same way. I want it to be this big cinematic experience. If it’s a TV show, commercial, whatever, I don’t care. I still approach it like a film. I know Joss wanted Buffy to be more like a movie, and some how he heard that in what I had done. And all he had heard that I had done was literally a cassette tape of a piece of the score I did on that cartoon series I mentioned, Savage Dragon. From one episode. And that’s what he hired me from, which was bizarre because that music was like a Trent Reznor kind of thing. I don’t know. I guess he heard something in that, and thought it would work for Buffy.
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