Justin Melland - Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
Justin Melland is Los Angeles based award winning film composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has written original scores for THE KILL TEAM, Showtime's DARK NET; and the Emmy award winning film IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST. He has also scored documentaries such as the HBO documentary THE DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER, Netflix's EXTREMIS. Most recently he scored the Starz original series WRONG MAN and Netflix's Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes with two time Emmy Award winning director Joe Berlinger.
The four-part series, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES brings the infamously twisted mind of serial killer Ted Bundy into the light for the very first time and invades our psyche in a fresh yet terrifying way through exclusive, never-before-heard interviews from the “Jack the Ripper of the United States,” himself. This unique and gripping docuseries focuses on the man whose personality, good looks and social graces defied the serial-killer stereotype, allowing him to hide in plain sight as he committed the brutal sex-crime slayings of more than 30 women before being caught in 1978. While on trial, Bundy received extraordinary adoration from American women, which made his gruesome crimes doubly haunting, even in an era of anything-goes mayhem. More than 100 hours of interviews were used to create this four-part series and the first episode aired on January 24, 2019. The series has has seen a massive audience in its first 35 days, vaulting into the #2 position of all Netflix original series releases since Nielsen measurement began (trailing only season 2 of “Stranger Things.”)
In this episode, Justin Melland opens upon about his own personal, childhood fears of Ted Bundy and he reveals how tapping into those fears and helped him compose the music for the series and even take musical risks he might not have otherwise. Melland shares his "favorite sound in the world" and how he was able to work this sound into his score. Lastly, the composer details how, fueled by 80s-nostalgia, he wrote a love-song for a killer.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:50 - I Didn't Know What the Hell I was Doing
05:17 - Fulfilled
07:45 - Ted
10:51 - Is it Love?
SOUNDTRACK
No soundtrack release information is currently available.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Justin Melland at his official site https://www.justinmelland.com/ or follow him on Twitter @justinmelland
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