Counter-Intuitive Temping

he technique of selecting temp music from a source that is thematically or generically opposite to the film being edited. This surprising juxtaposition can help an editor discover a unique emotional tone that more obvious choices would miss. For example, editor Jake Roberts used the bleak, atmospheric score from the post-apocalyptic film 'The Road' to find the correct melancholic tone for the 1950s romantic drama 'Brooklyn'.