ABSTRACT
The Hollywood-centric nature of most texts on film scoring creates the impression that the processes of film-score production are entirely standardised across the international film-music industry. There is enough consensus across the interviews with orchestrators and composers carried out for this project to support the idea that this is indeed the case at a macro level, but there is not agreement on all matters. As has been shown in the preceding chapters, the accounts from professionals contain sufficient discrepancies to demonstrate that on a micro level there is some variation in aspects of working practices and the ways that some tasks are approached and completed. These differences are explored in this chapter in order to illustrate the presence and effect of ‘local’ differences in the global industry.
