Hit Me Hard is my first of many scores to be entered in a competitive film festival. Before I began composing the score, I searched for ways to make the orchestra "sporty." Refrencing Randy Newman's use of drumline in the score for Monsters University, I found that the drumline provides a natural, sporty feel. However, drumline alone is extremly rythmic and (obviously), percussive. 

Brownley's film demanded for something more than drums, however. The three leads (one of which happens to be my roomate) experience drastic charachter development. To mimic the sporty drive of the film combined with the emotional charachter development, I combined the drumline with a full orchestra.

 A soaring melody first appears in "Classic Combo." This melody strictly aheres to the drumline's pulse; as the film matures, the melody begins to find its way away from the drumline. The tonal melody represented in the winds eventually runs parallel with a rhytmic melody represented through the snares and quads.

"The Rise of Miren" begins with a reprise of the innocent arpeggiated inversions that were introduced with the first appearance of the girl. Similar to the first time this theme appeared, the arpeggios make way for the soaring melody; However, the melody reprises in a new minor setting, representing the growing maturity of the film.