Learn about Colin Bell’s musical influences and his career course as a composer - Silver Screen Magazine

I didn’t know what I wanted to do, I wasn’t playing in a band anymore. That period of time was over for me. I really struggled, and then I started noticing film music more ― I was already an avid fan, but looking at how it is made, which really is not what I thought it was. I decided to go back to school later in my age. I already had some contacts and did some small projects with media composing. I was doing podcast theme songs or maybe short little films here and there, so I was cutting my teeth, but I decided to do two things. One, if I wanted to do this, I got to get my skills up. So, how am I going to do that? I’ve got to go back to school and train. And two, I wanted to go somewhere that was going to thrust me into the center of the scene, so I decided to go to Berklee to get my master’s degree in film scoring, which was probably the best choice in my career. In a matter of a year, I completely transformed my skill set. I understood how that music was created. I moved from a “pen and paper” composer, like composing strictly through notation software, to composing through the DAW, as we do now, understanding how you do that first and then do the MIDI take-down, turn it into a score, and then you send it off to the group. I came into it later, but with it, I was able to bring this huge skill set and my own unique upbringing into it.