45 - Composing Music For Film and TV with Modia Shole
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When you are watching stuff on the screen, big or small, there is one thing that tells you where you should be emotionally; tells you whether you should be sad, or happy, or terrrified. That is the score, the music that takes you on the emotional journey that you are watching.
Today Gino finds out more about what goes into scoring music for television and film as he chats to Modiakgotla Keatile Shole, better known as Modia.
Modia, who holds a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering, began his music career producing ringtone's for his friends
Twenty years later his music is heard on productions wherever you turn, including, 1802: Love Defies Time
The Last Fight
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Summertide
and Lavish
Check out Modia's insights into the world of film and tv scoring.
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