Dear Passengers,
I’ve known TAXI member Ed Hartman for a number of years, and frankly, I had little idea just how successful he’s been! He’s pretty soft-spoken and humble.
Ed specializes in making music with mallets, so maybe he’s not as “cool” as a guitar slinging Rock Star. But when rock stars look at his credits, they’re probably a little jealous
His music has been in feature films like, The Blind Side, Scooby Doo, The Mystery Begins, The Cold Light of Day, Surviving Christmas, Into the Fire, Spirit of the Game, A Different Sun, Cool It, Mini's First Time, and The Turkey Bowl.
He’s also scored music for the feature films, As the Earth Turns (34 best score awards/nominations), Fitz (Who Made Who Productions) - 2008 Alberta Film and Television Awards Nominee: Best Feature Film), and the documentary Project Colombia (The MapMakers).
As if all that isn’t impressive enough, Ed has also scored a bunch of short films, including: “SHAM Therapy” (Web-series), “The Son, The Father,” “Pause,” “Little Peter Needs to Fly,” "End Zone,” “The Three Stars,” “Trauma,” “Winston,” “Those in Need,” and “A Rich Mann.”
Some of his TV placements include: The Twilight Zone, Revenge, Motive, Twas the Night, Katie Morgan, Big Love, Lucifer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Passions, Let's Make a Deal, Doc-Block, Greek, Emeril Green, Nature, Gourmet Adventures with Ruth, Channel 5 Takes Latin, Relic Hunter, Extreme Towns, America Now, Shalom In The Home, Toddlers and Tiaras, and many others we didn’t have room to list here!
But it’s mainly the Short and Indie Film Scores I want to ask him about!
I’m pretty sure many musicians would love to do some film scoring, but they all have the same questions…
How do I find clients?
How do you get paid?
Should I do one on spec to get the experience?
What do I need to know from a musical perspective?
How did you learn the craft of scoring to picture?
How much time does it take to score a short film?
How many changes do you have to make?
What kind of technical stuff do you have to know?
Which instrument libraries do you find most useful?
And many more questions you probably want answers to!
This is going to be a great episode because we’ll be looking at an aspect of the music industry I don’t think we’ve touched on in the 11 years we’ve been doing TAXI TV. I hope you can join us!
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