Film scoring services
Custom film scores, written for your picture.
Jeffrey Carabelos is a film composer writing original music for features, shorts, series and trailers. Every score is written to picture, mixed in his studio, Harmonic Alchemy, and delivered in the formats your post team needs.
Hire a film composer for an original score
Scoring starts with a conversation about the story, not a music library. Jeffrey reads the screenplay, watches dailies, and talks through the emotional map of the film with the director before a note is written. From there come themes, a cue-by-cue plan, and demos you can react to while there is still time to change direction.
For directors who are unsure what they want musically, the discovery process is part of the work — sketches and references narrow the field quickly until the sound of the film is unmistakable.
What a film scoring engagement includes
- Spotting session and cue list built with the director and editor
- Original themes and full cue composition written to locked or evolving picture
- Orchestral, hybrid orchestral, electronic and ambient palettes
- Live players layered in where the score calls for them
- Score mixing, stems and delivery for the dub stage
- Revisions through the edit, including trailer and festival cutdowns
Film music production, end to end
Harmonic Alchemy is a post-audio studio founded by Jeffrey in 2020 that contracts with audio professionals worldwide. That means composition, film music production, immersive mixing and sound design can all run through one point of contact instead of three separate vendors.
Budgets and timelines
Scores are quoted per project, based on runtime, minutes of music, the size of the ensemble and the delivery date. Independent features, shorts and branded work each get a plan that fits what the production can actually carry. Tell Jeffrey the picture-lock date and the budget you have, and he will tell you honestly what is possible.