The Flower Unfolds (Abridged)The film in fifteen minutes / 14:59
Give it a sound.
Sound
Original score, songs, production and sound design. Six worlds, forty-six tracks: pick an orb.
Ready · the reelAmmar Khan — Composer Reel 2026
The score is the part of the film the audience takes home.
We write it to picture, alongside the edit, so the music and the cut grow up together.
Scores
Written to picture
- 01Composer Reel 2026Selected original musicComposer, producer2026
- 02The Flower UnfoldsDocumentary with Terrence HowardOriginal score. Also directed and shot.2025Hear it in the film↓
- 03Prosperous PairsShort film, dir. Jibran AhmedOriginal score. Executive producer.2025Hear it in the film↓
Four minutes of selected cues, and two films you can hear them in.
Listen on DISCO ↗- 01
Director, cinematographer and composer of The Flower Unfolds, a documentary with Academy Award-nominated actor Terrence Howard.
- 02
Executive producer and composer of Prosperous Pairs, a short thriller directed by Jibran Ahmed.
- 03
Part of the Emmy-winning producing team on CBS's Staycation, and producer of Emmy-nominated Destination Chicago episodes.
- 04
One studio from strategy to screen: the score is written in the same room as the edit, not after it.
Hear it in the film
Two scores, in place
Prosperous PairsShort film / 20:30
Press play on a film and the reel steps aside.
Start with a feeling
What should it feel like?
Every cue starts here, before a note is written. Pick one and the room changes.
Wide, patient, built for a big screen. The theme arrives when the picture earns it.
How a score gets written
Four steps, from the first spotting session to the final mix.
- Original score
- Music production
- Sound design
- Stems & alternates
- Cue sheets
- 01
Spot
We watch the cut together and decide where music lives, and where silence does.
- 02
Sketch
Themes and a palette, mocked up against picture within days, so the direction is agreed before the writing starts.
- 03
Write
Cues to the frame, revised as the edit moves. When the cut changes, the cue changes with it.
- 04
Mix and deliver
Stems, alternates and a final mix, delivered the way your picture needs them.
The composer
Ammar Khan writes the music for the films he directs, and for the ones he doesn’t.
Composer, producer and sound designer, and the founder of Visionary Coalition. He directed, shot and scored The Flower Unfolds, executive produced and scored Prosperous Pairs, and came to music from producing television for CBS and Peacock. The reel on this page is his 2026 composer showreel.
