VSL Studio Chat with Alexandre Desplat

Many users of Vienna Symphonic Library products enjoy a successful careers as film composers, orchestrators, and conductors. In our Studio Chats interview series, we present extraordinary artists sharing their individual approaches to writing and orchestrating music for film and television. Alexandre Desplat worked on many TV and film projects, including Carnage, Coco Chanel, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Ghost Writer, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The King's Speech, The Queen, and many more. 0:00 Introduction 0:15 How do you manage to work on so many projects a year? 0:54 Could you please describe your workflow and setup? 4:01 Did technology change your compositional style? 5:02 How would you define your style? 8:02 Do parts of your mock-up stay in the final mix? 9:24 How do you deal with temp tracks? 10:51 Do you ever encounter temp tracks from the Classical repertoire? ➤ Subscribe to our YouTube channel:    / viennasymphoniclibrary   Follow us on our journey of creating excellent sounds: ➤ Facebook:   / viennasymphoniclibrary   ➤ Instagram:   / viennasymphoniclibrary   Vienna Symphonic Library is one of the leading developers of orchestral sample libraries and award-winning music production software for all genres. For over 20 years, we've been recording high-quality samples of almost every instrument of the symphonic orchestra in the city of music, Vienna. Driven by our passion, we've built by far the largest sample database ever created by a single company. For our users worldwide, we continue to innovate and develop the most advanced virtual instruments. Our goal is to inspire artists and excite them to turn their musical ideas into reality. ➤ Get inspired by our libraries: https://www.vsl.co.at