Babygirl Movie - Behind the Score with Composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer - video Dailymotion

Babygirl Movie Featurette -  Behind the Score with Composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer

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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.