Oct 31, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Breakdown Charts When you’re recording your music live, so-called breakdown charts are very helpful. Basically, this chart lists every cue that needs to be recorded with title, length and specific instrumentation of the cue. Also, it notes specials like when there’s a...
Oct 30, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Finding Your Own Voice as a Composer As a composer, you’re very often confronted with conversations about “finding your own voice” and “your piece sounds like composer xyz” and some young composers feel very under pressure to develop an unique style. While of course a...
Oct 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Main Title Sequences Main title sequences have become quite rare these days but when you have the chance to score one, use it effectively. On a main title, you can set the overall mood of the score and the movie, you can introduce your thematic material and therefore...
Oct 28, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Starting a Career as Film or Game Composer There is no standard way to find an entrance into the film/game scoring world. The essential thing to understand is that it is a highly individual way for everybody and just because it worked for one person doesn’t mean it...
Oct 25, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
True Legato and Portamento Sample Overuse One of the most overused things in midi mockups are true legato and even worse: portamento patches. With many people using these patches overly extensively the result is very often a piece that sounds like chewing gum. Be...
