When Nathaniel Harder graduated from Berklee Online\u2019s Film Scoring<\/a> graduate program a few years ago, he didn\u2019t just dream about scoring films\u2014he immediately jumped into creating a 31-song soundtrack for a dark comedy called Thank You, Places!<\/em>, which premiered in November of 2024. Having a limited budget and post-pandemic logistics weren\u2019t ideal, but he leaned on his classmates and the skills he honed in the program to bring the project to life. The opportunity to score Thank You, Places!<\/em> came when Berklee professor Jessica Ray Huber<\/a> introduced Harder to the film\u2019s director, Timothy Mark Davis<\/a>. Harder then brought in his former classmates Celisse Tan<\/a> and Jameson Hegger<\/a> to collaborate on the soundtrack, a process that began shortly after graduating, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. \u201cHe didn\u2019t have a lot of money. He didn\u2019t have a lot of time. So he was a great palette for me to just write whatever I wanted within a set of parameters,\u201d says Harder of the director. \u201cIt was a really cool opportunity for me to maximize as much as I could out of it.\u201d Thank You, Places!<\/em> tells the story of a group of friends who try to save their film company during the pandemic, when the reality of its struggles seem to be geared more toward love affairs and betrayals. The movie\u2019s name refers to a common phrase used in film, TV, and theater as a way for actors to indicate that they’ve heard the direction to take their places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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