Oct 16, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Audience’s Attention in the Movies Be aware that at least 75% of the audience’s attention during a movie lies on the images. As a consequence, writing too subtle (e.g. bringing a hint of the main theme in an accompanying figure etc) when it needs to have a...
Oct 15, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Being Prepared for Outsourcing Work At certain points, for example when a project becomes just too big to be pulled off only by yourself in the time given, you will not get around outsourcing certain parts of the work to someone else. Usually things like score/part...
Oct 12, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
The Orchestral Percussion Section The use of the orchestral percussion section has become twofold in the last couple of years. In trailer music and modern Hans Zimmer inspired scoring, very often its function has become to mimick a drum set, basically providing a...
Oct 11, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Score Bindings in Recording Sessions When you’re preparing score sheet material for a recording session by yourself, avoid ring binding. Especially plastic ring bindings create a lot of noise which multiplies especially on string sections when 7 or 8 desks turn pages...
Oct 10, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Melodic Build-Ups Building towards a climax requires also your melody to increase tension which is not only possible by “going higher and higher”. When analyzing melodic structures that build towards a climax, usually several characteristics of the melody push it...
