Score!

Music for film and television has always been a passion of mine; a good score can lift a good scene to greatness, but a bad one can throw everything off. Consequently, I was rather pleased to learn that the genius behind the score for Invader Zim, one Kevin Manthei, also produced the score for Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption, an otherwise merely average game but with a really great gothic/moody score. Better yet, if you visit his site, you can download snippets - I recommend the Invader Zim pieces, they're fantastic.

So what makes a good film/television score? To my mind, any number of things: perhaps it nicely underlines the mood of a scene, filling in the silence between the dialogue. Maybe it lays on top of excitement and action, getting you pumping by massaging your adrenal glands with sound waves. My favourite, though, is a score with the ability to evoke the same emotions and memories that you felt when originally watching the scene.