In
the course of improving my own skills at documentary filmmaking (and
filmmaking in general), I read several books about cinematography,
lighting, directing, editing, etc. One topic that I haven't read a
whole book about, yet, is music in film. However, most of the other
books included at least a chapter on the subject. After making the
music videos (link, link) I really like the methodology that I
developed in that process. That is, the film follows the music.
The
reason that I bring this up as a point is because every filmmaking
book that I have claims that the music should be amongst the last
things added, after the editing is already finished, and the film is
locked-in. Perhaps they say this in reference to working with
composers who are creating an original score for the film. But even
then, I believe that music offers a more intrinsic rhythm, and thus
the imagery would do well to follow that rhythm.
For
that reason, I certainly didn't lock-in the film before adding music,
but rather added music, and then re-edited what I might in order to
make the film better fit the natural rhythm of the music. To be sure,
this is, in fact, a back-and-forth sort of relationship. That is,
sometimes the music dictates how the image has to change, and
sometimes the image dictates that the music has to be rewritten, or
change in some way or another.
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