The More We Know's video: Behind The Scenes Of The Oscar Nominated Gravity Score

"Gravity" was the big winner at the BAFTAs on February 16th, picking up six awards for the space survival thriller which has pushed the boundaries of 3-D production and special effects. The production may be bold, but its now BAFTA-winning score producer, Steven Price is anything but. He admits his neighbours in London have no idea what he does for a living and when he picks up his children from school, most of the other parents assume he's unemployed - and that's the way he likes it. However, that could all change when he attends the Oscars as Price has an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. The composer, whose previous composition work includes "Attack the Block" and "The World's End", worked closely with the film's director Alfonso Cuaron to create the soundtrack but even in its initial stages, both realised there was an issue. "Basically we started off with quite a broad canvass in that there's no sound in space and that threw out a lot of the ideas about what conventional film music could be. It wasn't going to work, it wasn't going to be where you were going to have a lot of clattering of percussion in an action sequence because you weren't competing with a lot of loud explosions and all that sort of thing so it became a big open question about what the music could be," Price said. "So everything needed to feel like it was constantly flowing and moving around and the way that I found through all the experiments to get this was to have sounds morphing. Sometimes I'd start with a theme being played on a cello but that might morph into something being played on almost something almost like a radio wave, like a radio tune would carry off the melody. This seamless thing that would constantly move around and sometimes take the point of view of a character, sometimes move around and be more subjective in watching something going past. Everything on screen basically affected how the music was written and this layering allowed it to get the movement right and just feel like you're up there," he continued. 'Gravity' follows medical engineer turned inexperienced astronaut Ryan Stone who finds herself fighting for her life in outer space. However, at times, because of tragedies in her life, she struggles to find reasons to live. Price admitted that the storyline helped create the central musical theme of the movie, saying "My job on the film is just to take you along this journey with Ryan so initially I remember just spending a lot of time on the piano trying to find this combination of notes that felt they could be used initially in a very desperate way, in a very broken way. The character starts off as someone who has turned her back on the world and sort of given up on life and then could develop as her character develops through these adversities and to find her strength in the end she makes this decision to live so I had to write a theme that could go through all this journey with her." And he also admits that Sandra Bullock acted as his muse on the soundtrack. "Everything in this film came from Sandra's performance. It was such an incredible achievement of hers. Often all you're seeing is her face and the body may be a CG creation and yet somehow through the eyes - seeing through a visor - everything is there so my job was really be there with her all the time. Whenever I was having a tricky day, all I needed to do was look at her performance and it would always show me the way forward and what emotionally the film was going to need," he said. Although Price's composition was eventually orchestrated, a lot of the sounds used in the soundtrack were created through experimentation in the small sound-proofed studio at the side of his modest house. For example, he would rub a metal block against an electric guitar to achieve a specific sound used to create tension. "As you can see it was all done in a very small place and it was all very home-made and a lot of the instruments were kind of me scraping away on things and trying to make these sounds so the idea of even going to the Oscars and sitting there having done all this with all those people in that room is going to be an amazing experience," he said. When Price won his BAFTA, he also discovered his next job as composer was now confirmed, when Edgar Wright tweeted that evening "Huge congrats to @SteveBPrice for his Bafta Award for the 'Gravity' score. I guess I should drop the news that he is scoring 'Ant-Man'." Currently, Steven Price is favourite with UK bookies to win the Oscar but nothing is for certain. The announcement will be me made when the Academy Awards air on March 2.