Between them, film score composers Hans Zimmer and Clint Mansell have supplied the music for many of your favorite motion pictures. Mansell scored Pi, Black Swan, Moon, and Requiem for a Dream. Zimmer did Interstellar, 12 Years a Slave, Inception, the Dark Knight movies, Gladiator, and (yep) Cool Runnings. Put together, the two men have over 200 credits to their names.
In the video above, the composers talk to the folks at Moog Music about the creation of a film score—the studio routine, the technical hurdles, and how music and film work together to make a complete cinematic statement. As you'd expect, they talk a lot about the modular analog keyboards made by Moog. But it's also an interesting discussion about the creative process, as conveyed by two masters.
