Resources
Marcel Barsotti and the future of digital music albums & soundtracks
Marcel Barsotti is one of the most successful German film composers. He has written the music for over a hundred cinema, television films and commercials (including Die Päpstin, Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen, Jesus liebt mich), and has published 40 music albums. He...
Creation of the music video “Der Steppenwolf”
In 2019 Helen Steinemann and Regula Dodds commissioned the composer Niklaus Vogel to compose a duo for two violins for their concert entitled “à la Mozart”. The resulting musical work "Steppenwolf" was premiered on October 19, 2019 in Ebikon and has already been...
Meet film composer Yagiz Oral, founding conductor of the Agora Symphony Orchestra
Yagiz Oral is a film music composer and founding conductor of the Agora Symphony Orchestra, based in Ankara, Turkey. Epic Lab had a chance to talk with him. Yagiz Oral, what made you follow the career of a film composer? Actually, I can say that my journey started...
The Sony A7 SIII – a love hate relationship for professional videographers
Jonathan Moy de Vitry is a filmmaker and the founder of RightHere/RightNow Productions, a team of Geneva-based artist-technicians infusing the best elements of classic cinema into modern media formats, from event videos and social media campaigns to livestreams and...
Meet Bernard Duc, Swiss film composer and conductor
Bernard Duc is a Swiss film composer and conductor living in London. He is also the organiser of Perspective, an event for film and media composers that is held annually in London. Bernard Duc, if you had to name 3 characteristics a successful film composer needs in...
Meet Jeffrey Gaiser at Audiomachine Los Angeles
Jeffrey Gaiser is an award-winning film composer at Audiomachine, a production music company based in Los Angeles. Many of Audiomachine's tracks have been featured in theatrical movie trailers, including those of Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia, Iron Man, Venom and...
Quick Hack for Creating a Multiframe 3×2 Layout in Premiere Pro
My video project "Die Lockdown-Probe" is a satirical comedy about six musicians rehearsing online via Skype call. I wrote and filmed it during the coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020, and it officially premiered on New Year's Eve 2020 as part of the streaming program...
Meet Jonathan Coomes, sound mixer and sound designer in Hollywood
Jonathan Coomes is a sound designer and sound mixer in Los Angeles and an active member of Motion Picture Sound Editors and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. He has worked on numerous films, episodic series, and video games in a variety of roles. Epic Lab had the...
How music influences the perception of a scene
Exploring the effects of music and sound on the perception of motion picture has always fascinated me. This short clip is an example I put together just for fun, comparing two identical film excerpts with different music and sound effects applied. Depending on your...
Meet Esin Aydingoz, assistant music director for Disney’s DCappella & secretary for the Alliance for Women Film Composers
Esin Aydingoz is a Turkish film composer based in Los Angeles, who also happens to be the assistant music director for DCappella, Disney Music Group’s a cappella singing sensation featuring 7 world class vocalists. Known for their reimagined classics from the Disney...