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“Brave” (Pixar) – mockup

A useful way to practice spotting (hitting musical beats with certain cues on the screen) as well as improve at matching music to action is by re-scoring scenes from movies. This mockup of a scene from Brave was a lot of fun and was part of an assignment in my Film Scoring class at the […]

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Child of Light (mockup)

Child of Light (mockup) – Ubisoft, 2014 One of my favorite things to do to stay nice and practiced is re-writing music for trailers. (Child of Light is fantastic by the way; both the game itself and its soundtrack. You should check it out!) I hope you enjoy it.

404Sight

Creative Director: Rachel Leiker November, 2014 – Salt Lake City, UT (Original Score, Sound design) 404Sight is a video game about net neutrality. It was created by Retro Yeti Games – a team formed from graduate students from the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering program. Read more about the game and the team […]

The Elder Scrolls Online (Mockup)

A great way to show clients how a musical score may sound against their project without actually hiring a composer is to use mockups.  Mockups are essentially existing projects with all the music stripped out and re-scored. The project below is a Bethesda production (animated by Blur studios, who I love!) called The Elder Scrolls […]