The Music of Moonlight with Composer Nicholas Britell
In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection music profile writer Jon Burlingame chats with Oscar nominated composer Nicholas Britell about his work on Director Barry Jenkins film Moonlight. Nicholas describes how the intimacy of the story influenced his writing process and how he introduced the technique of remixing the score using chopped and screwed techniques. Nicholas also describes how he changed Little’s Theme using this technique and how this influenced the tone for various scenes.
Video sponsored by AVID (www.avid.com) and Savannah College of Art and Design (www.scad.edu)
MOVIE STUDIO
A24
DIRECTOR
Barry Jenkins
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Nicholas Britell
Synopsis
This drama charts the life of a black gay youth named Chiron as he grows up in a rough neighborhood in Miami. In the first segment, Chiron is a ten-year-old nicknamed "Little" (Alex Hibbert) who is taken in by a kindhearted Cuban drug dealer (Mahershala Ali) and his girlfriend (Janelle Monáe). In the middle installment, a teenage Chiron (Ashton Sanders) explores his sexuality as he falls in love with a close friend. The final chapter follows Chiron in his twenties (Trevante Rhodes) as he reconnects with faces from his past. Directed by Barry Jenkins, Moonlight was adapted from a short play called In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney.