Bespoke Scoring for Film and Picture

Every score is quoted per project, because no two films need the same thing. The price depends on the runtime, how many minutes of music the film actually needs, whether we are recording live players or working with samples and synthesis, and how long we have to deliver. Send us the picture, the runtime and your delivery date and we will come back with a fixed quote. We work on festival and independent budgets as well as fully funded productions, and we will tell you honestly if what you want is not achievable for what you have.

Feature films, short films, documentary, animation, television, video games and interactive, commercials, fashion films and dance films. Our composers have delivered original scores across all of these, from full feature scores to single-cue commercial work.

Kerry Chen and Eugene Vinitsky. Kerry is a film composer and sound designer with feature, documentary, animation and game credits, an MMus in Composition for Film and Television from the London College of Music and a First Class BA in Music from the University of Leeds. Eugene is a composer, producer and engineer who has worked with Sony Music, Def Jam and Warner Music, and with artists including Aitch, Not3s and Dappy. On most projects they work together, which means a score that is both properly written and finished to a commercial standard without being handed off to a third party.

It starts with a spotting session, where we watch the cut with you and agree where music goes and what each cue is doing. We then develop themes and send you sketches early, so the direction is agreed before any cue is finished. From there we compose to picture, record, mix and deliver. You see and hear the score as it develops rather than receiving it all at the end.

Final mixed cues to picture, full stems split as your dubbing mixer needs them, and a cue sheet for your PRS or performing rights registration. We deliver at whatever sample rate and format your post house asks for, and we can supply notated scores where a project needs them. For games we deliver implemented adaptive audio sessions in Wwise rather than flat files.

Yes. Live players are recorded at the studio in Canary Wharf, and we combine live instrumentation with samples and synthesis depending on what the film needs and what the budget supports. A small amount of real playing over a sampled bed usually gets you further than either alone.

Yes. Scoring is largely a remote process now. You send the cut, we hold the spotting session over a call, and cues come back to you for review as they are written. We work with productions across the UK and internationally, and plenty of directors never visit the studio.

It depends on how much music the film needs and how locked the picture is. A short film is usually a matter of weeks and a feature typically runs over a few months. The single biggest factor is picture lock: rewriting cues to a moving edit is what makes schedules slip, so tell us honestly how stable the cut is and we will plan around it.

Rights are agreed per project and set out in writing before any work begins. Most productions take an exclusive licence to use the score in the film and its marketing, with the composers retaining authorship for performing rights purposes, which is standard practice and is what allows a cue sheet to generate royalties. If your financier or distributor needs a different arrangement, tell us early and we will work to it.

Yes. Alongside linear film work we write adaptive and interactive scores, implemented in Wwise rather than handed over as loops for someone else to integrate. Current projects include an original score for a video game in development and an adaptive score for a mobile title.

Yes. Kerry works as a sound designer as well as a composer, and the studio handles recording, mixing and mastering in house. That means score and sound can be developed together rather than fighting each other in the dub, and you are dealing with one team rather than three.

Email contact@choisez.com with your project, the runtime, your delivery date and a link to the cut or a treatment if you do not have picture yet. We will come back with our thoughts on the music and a fixed quote. There is no charge for the conversation.