The Afterparty Composer Reveals Which Genre Films Inspired The Show’s Music
The Afterparty composer, Daniel Pemberton, revealed the different genres that inspired the show's musical scores. Pemberton previously worked with creator and director, Christopher Miller, on the highly acclaimed Spider-Man: Into the Universe and was eager to take on the complex challenges posed by the show's ambitious form of storytelling. The first season consists of eight episodes chronicling the same story, but told in eight different ways by eight different people.
The AppleTV+ series takes place during a high school reunion after-party, hours after a murder has occurred. Detectives arrive on the scene (played by Tiffany Hadish and John Early) to discover who, out of the eleven guests present, committed the act. Each guest tells their story and their particular viewpoint is delivered through a contrasting narrative trope: romantic comedy, action, psychological thriller, musical, animation, or art house cinema.
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Variety reported the different genre films that inspired Daniel Pemberton's numerous scores which all catered to the episode's narrative style. The article stated that to ensure authenticity, he would try to place himself in the headspace of certain composers who commonly worked in the specific genre he was capturing, in the hopes that the music he created would reflect their inspiration. Pemberton also pointed out the extra challenge of making sure the scores were recognizably conventional in order to seamlessly blend into that episode's particular world. Read his full quote below:
«The strangest thing about this project is I’m almost going to be invisible, I have to make scores that feel so conventional, you don’t even think about
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