How the composers of «Finding You» composed the score for Irish romance drama remotely.
With the script for Brian Baugh’s “Finding You” (in theaters May 14) centering around violinist Finley (Rose Reid) traveling to the Irish coast for a semester, composer Kieran Kiely couldn’t help but say yes to the opportunity since music was part of the storyline. In this coming-of-age story, Finley searches for herself, discovers her passion for music and finds unexpected romance with Jedidiah Goodacre’s Beckett Rush. Kiely collaborated with fellow composer Timothy Williams and together they navigated their way across continents to build the film’s source music and score amid a pandemic. Kieran Kiely: We had to do a lot of work in advance of the filming because the whole film is all about music; she’s a fiddler, there’s the music we hear in the pub, the music Seamus (Patrick Bergin) teaches her, and there’s the score. I took the lead initially and did the pre-production and Irish music that you see more onscreen, and the elements of score that have Irish flavor to it. Tim took all the scenes that were the movie within the movie. Timothy Williams: We began with the main theme for her because she writes a song on the fiddle so we had to sort of tackle it. Kieran came back and said, ‘Well, that’s not really Irish,’ so he adapted it and made it feel more natural and more Irish. There was a lot of back and forth on Google docs because we were working remotely and were rarely in the same city.
