Bear McCreary, an appreciation: The proximate cause of this post is that I wanted to thank Bear McCreary for being kind enough to retweet the link to my video about the making of Lorde’s Everybody Wants to Rule The World. https://youtube/watch?v=oaTf-qr5fcE But in describing Bear to a new intern yesterday, I found myself saying things like “visionary” and “inexhaustible supply of energy” and “I don’t know how he does it.” Let me explain. Bear McCreary is currently scoring 5? 6? 7? shows - I’ve lost count - including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Black Sails, Da Vinci’s Demons, and the monstrous hit, The Walking Dead. Most of these he does with a live orchestra which he conducts himself. And he does them all extremely well - each has a distinctive palette and attitude. None feel like he is punting. I used to score two shows simultaneously (Cold Case and Close To Home) and can tell you what he’s doing is an astonishing achievement. Yes, he has help. (It wouldn’t be possible, otherwise). But everything he does is his vision of what music for television should be and he manages it with a degree of apparent effortlessness and good humor that is inspirational. But, almost as importantly, he has a massive online presence with blogs, FB posts, tweets, etc. that, again, clearly bear his stamp and direct participation. Bear took a “little” job - Battlestar Galactica - on what was then a 2nd tier network - SyFy - and leveraged it into an empire. I worked for the most successful empire builder in film music, Hans Zimmer, for ten years. Hans accomplished this by a combination of being extremely good at the job of film composing and enormously adept at choosing the right people for his team and developing the right systems to deliver outstanding work to his clients, every time. If there is anyone out there today who deserves the mantle of “the next Hans” it is Bear McCreary. https://youtube/watch?v=52xxaVKoI-c
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:50:54 +0000
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