Ryan Shore – Composers shouldn’t be over-zealous

When scoring I try not to overreach or attempt something musically which we can’t afford to produce, because that sets all of us up for failure. If a music budget can only afford a limited number of live musicians, then I always start by trying to find a musical approach that can be achieved with the musicians we have. In an ideal scenario, I want that approach to be so right for the film that if we had ten million dollars to produce the music we still would have done it with that limited number of musicians. That's when you know you found the right approach.