Mar 15, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Ethnic Instruments Ethnic and more rare instruments are still pretty popular in film/game/trailer music and are of course a great tool to locate a scene or character or to simply add unusual textures. However these instruments pretty often come with technical...
Mar 14, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
“True Legato” Samples Lag When you’re working with true legato sample patches (where the transitions between notes have been sampled as well) be aware that depending on the instruments, the lines will always feel more or less late. Real players will always...
Mar 13, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Reharmonisation Fundamentals Reharmonisation of a melody is a very attractive way for musical development and is constantly used in film music to shape a theme according to the mood that is needed. The possibilities are almost endless and you could reharmonize by just...
Mar 12, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Scoring Kissing Scenes Many inexperienced composers tend to score kiss scenes overly climactic and cheesy which almost always feels like a bad caricature of the whole scene. There are only few kiss scenes in movies nowadays that need the big orchestral sweep or that...
Mar 11, 2019 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Self Discipline for Freelancers Being a composer, or rather being self emplyed requires a tremendous amount of self discipline. If you have the possibility to fall into lazyness, the temptation to actually fall into it is quite high. Every self employed person knows...
