Gender Bias in Film Scoring, What’s Her Story? with Jessica Rae Huber

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Jessica Rae Huber is a film and television composer who has written music for projects such as The Walking Dead, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Outlander, and Constantine. Jonathan talks with Jessica about how she got into film scoring, the process of adding music to a TV show, and the important Walking Dead death she saw before the rest of us. Plus he gets into the #MeToo side of scoring and what it’s like to be a woman in this male-dominated industry. Find Jessica Rae Huber’s work at JessicaRaeHuber.com [jessicaraehuber.com]. She’s on Twitter @JessicaRaeHuber and Instagram as JessicaRaeHuber [instagram.com]. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, honey. This is Jonathan Beness and every week I sit down for a 30-minute conversation
0:04.6	But let's be honest a lot of times it takes longer than 30 minutes because I cannot stop myself from talking
0:09.1	But we sit down for our conversation with the brilliant excerpt shown it all about something that makes me curious
0:13.4	This week I'm curious about gender bias and film scoring and what is even film scoring anyway?
0:18.6	What is her story with film composer Jessica Ray Hubert?
0:22.1	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Beness. I'm so excited that we have this guest in studio today
0:30.0	We I'm just gonna get right out just put it right out there who we have we have gorgeous Jessica Ray Hubert, right?
0:36.4	Hubert Hubert I just really wouldn't have put that French emphasis on it. This wouldn't be a getting curious moment
0:41.9	If I didn't mispronounce your last name. I always I do that a lot. I'm working on it and
0:48.9	Hubert. Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, got it
0:51.8	Jessica Ray Hubert. Yeah, you got it. Nailed it. So you guys picture it
0:56.8	Jessica has the most amazing hair. You're giving me a beautiful little baby quip like a little pompadour
1:03.8	Texture tussled moment you can tell your natural curls absolutely stunning
1:08.0	No, it really is like I'm like just I just like love wavy textured hair. I am a wavy textured hair person
1:13.3	Hair having person myself
1:15.0	Anyway, so you're a film composer. I am yes, and what I'm so excited to talk about is just what that looks like
1:22.4	How does that process look like how do you put them together? Where does one get this inspiration from? I
1:28.9	Obviously have eyes and you're a woman
1:32.0	So like what's it like to be a lady in composing like totally in the day like
1:37.4	Yeah, I mean yeah, a lot of questions. I'll do there's so many. Yeah, I'll try to like unpack. So let's start from the beginning
1:43.9	Beethoven. Yeah
1:46.3	You know
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