So we meet the composer in charge of redoing the intro for its 100th Anniversary. Apparently that's a job you can have.
The feature is only 2 1/2 minutes long, but you probably hear the intro music a good 30 times, in various lengths and snippets. I can't imagine how many times the orchestra had to hear it while they played, or the sound guys during editing.
Reminds me of a Starbucks my friend went into that was playing a 30 second soundbite of a song, over and over and over again. Imagine working an 8 hour shift in there. You'd go insane.
As tedious as this work seems, designing music for a 10 second clip that most people don't even notice, it's cool and actually admirable how much thought and dedication they put into it. A huge orchestra, an array of exotic instruments, even a choir.
It made me think of the Brian Wilson scene in Walk Hard, when they are parodying the Beach Boys and their eclectic period:
Ugh. Ignore the youtubey crap in between the actual good stuff
Overall, I gained a lot of insight into how things like this are made.
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