Hi! I am Nuéva Hermans, and for my graduation film Het Snoepontbijt, I am looking for a composer who wants to create a playful, cinematic, and emotional score with me.

About the film:
Sophie brings her family back together after years for their old tradition: the candy breakfast. What starts as a warm reunion quickly takes a turn when underlying tensions surface.

In an imaginative, abstract world, Sophie sees her family as candies. Through that imagination, she tries to understand their dynamics, and herself. Sophie is a playwright, but has traded her passion for an office job. During breakfast, she wants to mention that she is quitting to start writing again.

In the end, it turns out that the abstract world is its own artistic vision: the play "The Candy Breakfast". The film has a distinctly theatrical style, with playful costumes and a set that feels like a stage.

What do we offer?
- A role in an original, theatrical, and visually strong graduation film
– A lot of creative freedom and room for your own input
– Collaboration with an enthusiastic and close-knit team of young makers
– Great portfolio build-up within fiction and film
– Eternal gratitude, of course

Type
semi-professionele productie

Location
Noord-Brabant

Description
At the beginning and during the final edit, I think of lovely, light music—perhaps it’s a somewhat strange example, but a bit like *Heel Holland Bakt*. Every episode there starts with a montage of the preparation of all the pastries: light, playful, and full of anticipation. It has something warm and almost fairytale-like about it, and immediately evokes a sense of coziness.

That is exactly how Sophie feels at the beginning. That is how I want to portray her as well. That is precisely why it seems interesting to me to let that same musical theme slowly shift. When tension rises at the table, that friendly music can become alienating; less warm, slightly sharper, perhaps just off balance. As if the safe, nostalgic feeling is developing cracks. At the end, I want to return to that theme, but in a more mature version: recognizable, only with more depth and darker tones. In this way, the music grows along with Sophie, as it were.


In terms of atmosphere, think a bit of Frances Ha, Fantastic Mr. Fox, or The Grand Budapest Hotel.
— Spotify link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1WsLgsQ5AmFAxLWxlc3IqL?si=gJdDnIpSRUWwQde_n_vzNA&pi=DcZfpR3rReeBj

Job requirements / profile
I am looking for someone who can make music that:
- feels warm and nostalgic
- May be slightly absurd and playful
- is subtly emotional and cinematic
- Sometimes dares to sound a bit alienating

Language requirements
Dutch, English

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