(WXIN/WTTV) — So much depends on a film's score. Changing the tempo, the key or even a single note can completely alter the audience's reaction to a scene.

That's something composer Eli Denson knows very well.

"The magic of seeing music being set to the visuals, and the effect that that can have on an aesthetic level," Denson said. "I think is something that's drawn me from a very early age."

Denison started writing scores as a freshman at Mississippi State University, when his sister needed music for plays she was writing for her own classes. But he says his love for film, specifically film scores, started with his parents, who would regularly play John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Hermann albums at home.

"I remember growing up, just the recognition of the pivotal role that m

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