Aug 16, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Compose With Orchestration in Mind When you’re writing music, at least have a basic idea about the orchestration while doing so. Writing something completely disconnected from the orchestration will cause compromises in the orchestration process later. The problem...
Aug 15, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Cinema Sound Systems Surprises Unless you get a chance to listen to your score in a mixing cinema when doing the film mix (which is usually something only higher budgeted movies do) you should be prepared for your music sounding quite different in the cinema than it...
Aug 14, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Hook Lines in Film Scoring The concept of a “hook-line” – as it is called in the pop world – is to create one or several elements that stick in the memory of the listener and create something that is easily remembered and recognized once it appears again. As opposed...
Aug 13, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
“Fake” Tempo Changes through Rhythmic Subdivisions Rhythmic subdivisions of the same tempo can be a great tool to dramaturgically shape your scene and for creating “fake” tempo changes. Staying in the same tempo while switching back and forth between a pushing eighth...
Aug 12, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Working at Home Working at home by your own time schedules can in theory be a very nice way of working but can in reality cause quite a bit of problems. Quite a few composers suffer from a lack of concentration, being constantly distracted and not really being able to...
