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British composer Chad Hobson talks about the emotional and practical difficulties of working on HBO’s ‘Leaving Neverland’
Jun 12, 2019 · Chad Hobson stops by Hidden Remote to discuss his experience scoring the music for the Dan Reed documentary film, Leaving Neverland.
Mar 19, 2019 · That’s the challenge composers Chad Hobson and Nathan Matthew David faced as they scored HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” and Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly,” respectively.
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Before he even started working on the score, Hobson was called in by director and frequent collaborator Dan Reed to see a top-secret edit the film; the composer was left awestruck by what he viewed. “They showed me the first twenty minutes, I didn’t utter a word. My jaw hit the floor. I thought, ‘All right. Okay. Here we go.’ Until I’d seen the res...
This isn’t the first time Hobson and Reed worked together, as Hobson is often Reed’s go-to guy for music composition, on films with dark, tragic themes. “I’ve worked with Dan many times and his filmmaking is always on the edge, with very difficult subject matter. Totally brilliant, and I love the challenge of trying to elevate myself to the standar...
When it comes to Hobson’s opinion on the Michael Jackson allegations in the film, he says he was in disbelief like much of the rest of the world, making the same assumptions people have for years—that it’s just Michael Jackson, he’s eccentric; that some people might just be trying to get money out of him. Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck’s stories i...
chad hobson is a composer with extensive credentials in film and television. His work in film includes a wide range of genres, including gritty urban drama such as Adulthood (Noel Clarke, Plan B), epic fantasy like Stardust (Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer), and comedy such as Anuvahood (Adam Deacon) and Shaun the Sheep: The Movie .
Chad joined the Advanced Imaging Center (AIC) in 2021 as a recent PhD graduate from the department of physics and astronomy the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His PhD research in Rich Superfine's lab focused on combining atomic force microscopy and single-objective light-sheet microscopy to study the mechanical properties of cell ...
