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#composerlife #filmscore #contemporaryclassical #musicianhumor #composersoftiktok #scoringlife
Reference: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da_ywiiNmy5/ — @ashleerinamusic 'performative ahh mode activated' violin trend. Downloaded and frame-sampled the actual 22-sec video to confirm the concept: starts casual (scrolling phone, instrument in lap) with text 'when your teacher finds your instagram account', then cuts to a mock Instagram-post screenshot of herself dramatically posing with the instrument raised, an over-the-top caption about obsessive practice/passion, an absurd fake motivational quote misattributed to a mashed-up composer name ('Johann Amadeus van Paganini'), and an escalating pile of dedication-signaling hashtags. It satirizes performative online dedication-posting. Adapted here as a composer version, same structure, new content — original.
Concept (observed from reference)
Starts casual, real. Cuts to a fake, over-the-top Instagram-post mockup satirizing performative online 'dedication' — exaggerated caption, an absurd misattributed quote, an escalating pile of hashtags.
Beats
- 0:00-0:03 — you slumped on the couch, scrolling your phone, score/manuscript paper in your lap, unbothered. Text overlay: 'when a collaborator finds your Instagram'
- 0:03 — hard cut to a mock Instagram post screenshot: you dramatically posed at the piano, hands raised mid-flourish like you just finished a movement, dead serious expression.
- Mock caption on screen: 'Getting my daily 10 hours of score revisions in! Composing is my calling and my curse. 🎼'
- Fake pretentious quote: '"The rest is as important as the note." — Ludwig van Debussy' (an absurd mashed-up composer name, same joke device as the reference)
- Escalating hashtag pile-on, on screen: #discipline #10000hourrule #suffering4art #metronomevictim #inkstainedfingers #rejectedcuesheets #imisunderstood
- Closer: cut back to reality — you back on the couch in the exact same slumped position, phone away, unimpressed.
Filming
- Same location/lighting for the 'real' bookend shots so the contrast with the performative middle section lands.
- The mock post screenshot section can be a still frame with the caption/quote/hashtags typed on screen in the actual Instagram UI style, held for 2-3 sec each, like the reference.
Caption
performative ahh mode activated #filmscore #composer #contemporaryclassical
CTA
Tag the composer friend who has definitely posted a version of this.