Writing music for wildlife films is a rewarding job: magnificent, spacious landscapes, real drama and chases for life and death, no shamefull dialogues or lousy acting, what more could you want? 'Addo' is a dramatised wildlife film from Nature Conservation Films, produced by Universal. In this case dramatized means the plot is formed with documentary material. The main character is Addo, an old lion looking back on his life.

 

After our return we still had 4 days left before the music needed to be finished. Danny, however, came up with the clever idea of recording the music, multi-channeled, directly into our laptops. This way we could make a start editing at the hotelroom (photo of Danny from the making of). This is a rare example of technology effectively gaining time, instead of providing extra options and therefore costing time. At the same time Bart was mixing the already finished music in the other studio. So Danny and I only had to do the cutting. We made it in time. Looking back now, like Addo himself in fact, it was an enchanting project.

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