One of the most powerful tools a composer brings to your film is the ability to make the stakes feel like they're constantly rising — without a single line of dialogue or a single additional frame.
Composers get to work on projects of all kinds - big and small; live and animated; horror and humorous. We usually show up right at the end of the production when everything is wrapped, locked, and ready for the final ingredient. But this composing job for John August was a chance to…