Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer, a German film score producer and composer, has composed music for over 100 films including movies like The Lion King, Inception, Sherlock Holmes, Megamind, and Rango. He is well known for integrating orchestral scores with electronic sounds and synthesizers He is head of the Film music division at Dreamworks studios and works with other composers through the company he founded, Remote Control Productions. Hans Zimmer has received various awards including: An Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award for his musical score in The Lion King, he aslo received another Grammy Award for the musical score in the movie The Dark Knight, and another Golden Globe Award for the musical score in the movie The Galdiator. He is also known for composing the official soundtrack of the popular video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
The reason why his work interests me is because he is the first film music composer to integrate synthetic sound effects with orchestral music to create amazing musical scores that further develop the mood/tone of the movie and will better establish the mood the audience should be feeling. He also spends time researching and learning about the different genres of music depending on the setting, mood ant tone of the movie. For instance, while writing the music for the movie The last Samurai Zimmer travelled to Japan to do more research because he felt that he did not understand the genre enough to write a musical score. He was shocked when he was asked how he knew so much about Japanese music. It is clear that Hans Zimmer is willing to learn about different genres of music so he could write an effective musical score for the movie. Hans Zimmer is now considered as one of the greatest composers of film music.
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