Interview with Michael Giacchino
	Digital Guestbook, Audio / Sound, Interview with Michael Giacchino
	Michael Giacchino, Composer What I love about entertainment is storytelling to me is the most important aspect of life, and, you know, it’s the thing that kind of keeps families together, it keeps, communities together. But if you really kinda look at the people around you, the one thing I think everyone has in common is storytelling, they love hearing stories. So, at its heart, that’s what I love about entertainment.” “Writing music is like storytelling. You know if you’re ever listening to a symphony or even a song, you’ll find that there’s a story being told to you, whether it has words or not, and for me, it’s always about following the story that was written for the film.” “It has been said that sound is 50% of the experience for watching a movie, and, uh, when you strip away the sound, you strip away its soul, because it’s the things you hear, the dialog, it’s the sounds of the streets, it’s the music, it’s all those things that are telling you what and how to feel. “ “A lot of times…when I’m working on a show like “Lost,” for example. The show comes to me with no music in it, and I will watch it, and I’ll watch the episode until something emotional hits me, and I feel like, oh I can do something there that will kind of help heighten what, what they’re trying to do. So I stop the, I stop the movie, I, I start writing music, and then when I’m done writing that cue, I continue watching. So, the thing is that I have no idea what’s coming up at the end of the…the end of the show. “With a show like “Lost,” you never know what’s coming. Uh, so in many cases where you would watch a whole film first and then decide where to put the music, I kind of decide this as I watch it. Uh, and in that way I keep the viewer hopefully, uh, on their toes and I’m in sync with their emotions as they’re watching it, and, and the music feels reactive because that’s exactly the way it was written, and that’s important.” “Sound can instantly transport you to wherever you need to be. For example, I remember when I was a kid, and uh, there was a game that I played, you know, at bed time, and I would be in my bed, and I would listen to what they were listening to in the other room on the television, and I would try and figure out “Alright, what show are they watching?” Based on the sound effects I heard, based on the music I was listening to. I’m like, “I think it’s MASH, or is that the Rockford Files, or is that…” So, I mean to be able to sit there in another room without the picture at all and, and, and identify what that is, I think that speaks for itself as to how important sound and music are to films.”

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