May 31, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Study Instrument Registers Just as important as knowing the ranges of the instruments that you are writing for you should also have a clear idea about their registers and dynamic possibilities of them in these registers. There are a few charts out there which show one...
May 30, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Fingers off the Pan Knob The standard panning knob (or balance on a stereo signal) works in a way that it simply changes the levels of the right and left channel according to where you set it. Therefore, on stereo signals it only seems to change the direction of the...
May 29, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Handling Dissonances Dissonances need to be written very carefully. While many inexperienced composers write in a way that they just add “random” notes to a sound in order to make it dissonant, it will most likely result indeed in a very dissonant sound, however...
May 28, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Ignoring Hit Points in Favor of the Bigger Arc In some situations, it might be the better choice to musically ignore hit points that you normally would score in favor of a higher dramatic purpose. For example imagine a battle scene with lots of action going on, many...
May 27, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Relevance of your IMDB Page In the film world, your IMDb page is quite important to showcase your references. This platform has been the standard in the industry for several years now. Producers/companies might even check your IMDb page to find out about your...