Aug 17, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Orchestration Strategy When orchestrating music, one of my favorite strategies is to orchestrate from most important to least important which means that you start off with the element that you need to be perceived as the main idea and work your way down to the...
Aug 16, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Noises on Recordings Noises on a recording can be very annoying and are easily overheard on a session (as you focus more on the music obviously). Usually the sound engineer is supposed to spot noises but they can slip by quite easily and what you could barely hear on...
Aug 15, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Stylistic understanding Understanding and being aware of a style of composition is just as important as finding the right tone for a scene. While certain things are musically perfectly plausible they might not neccessarily be what is stylistically appropriate. Film...
Aug 14, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Unaccompanied Melodies Unaccompanied melodies can have a fantastic effect in a movie when placed cleverly. The “lonely” instrument or section filling up the musical space has a beautiful and haunting quality and can either create an extreme intimacy which is for...
Aug 13, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Working on several projects at the same time Unless you get to work on long-term projects alot, being a composer for the media quite often also means organizing and juggling several things and projects at once. While this is not just a challenge from the standpoint of...
