writing music for movies, because in movies, there is already a strong conception of the whole from the beginning. "the scene lasts from here to here." "there are lines here, so don't cover them over." "make this part more dramatic." and so forth, down to the smallest details. much of it was like that. i enjoyed working towards those kinds of goals again. i got a lot of energy from the movie scenes. there were a lot of them where just by watching a melody would form in my mind. there were also times when the scenes got bad reactions, when i probably tried too hard to match the images. 