• 2 weeks ago
Babygirl Movie Featurette - Behind the Score with Composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Transcript
00:00So I'm going to just open these tracks.
00:04It's a girl that I pitched down and originally it sounded like this.
00:11It turned into this.
00:14And then the breathing is exaggerated with some kind of stereo effects.
00:21So that's a wolf killing and eating some animal.
00:26To me, when I'm watching any movie, the music goes into unexpected, abstract ways.
00:34Speaking about the subtext, it just makes everything more rich and interesting.
00:40My name is Cristo and I'm the composer for Baby Girl.
00:45Halina, the director, she didn't want something very serious.
00:50It was more celebratory, almost, music.
00:54Celebrating the main character, even though there's really dark elements to the movie.
01:01There's two themes because there's a completely different character at the beginning of the movie.
01:08I proposed an old school waltz that is the life that she wants to project
01:14and the life that she has constructed for herself.
01:19It's mainly an orchestra with violins and timpani and the harp and there's an opera singer.
01:29It was composed on the piano. The right hand is basically the waltz.
01:34The left hand is not a waltz, it's a military march.
01:38Two, three, four.
01:40So this is super square and you can hear the...
01:50She's a very strong, driven person until she meets this guy who brings out something in her.
01:59Can I borrow your lighter?
02:01And then we switch into what becomes the second theme.
02:05So throughout the movie, this animalistic beat doesn't have much sense of a melody.
02:10Very much clashing with the beginning of the movie where the waltz is very organized.
02:16Down the mix, the wolf becomes somehow like a kick drum.
02:20For the drums, it's this old South of Chile, Native drums.
02:25It sounds really amazing and it's a very special song for the movie.
02:29For the drums, it's this old South of Chile native drums.
02:33It sounds really amazing and it's a really deep sounding drum.
02:37Another element, which is basically a mechanical thing,
02:40and the original sound is like this.
02:44Pitched down and made into a rhythm.
02:49Blended with the animals.
02:50It does have this very intense drive to it.
02:59When you hear something like this, it's not the more obvious choice,
03:04but I'm really happy that we went with creativity and without fear
03:09to represent this very complex person.