Nov 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Clarinet Dynamics Due to their construction with a single reed, Clarinets (and also Saxophones) have the special ability to create incredibly low dynamics and can crescendo from or decrescendo to almost complete silence. This doesn’t only apply to the Clarinet...
Nov 21, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Microphone Spill When recording a real orchestra, unless isolated in separate booths or recorded in several sections, you will basically hear every instrument on every microphone. This goes particularly for loud instruments like percussion and brass in forte or above....
Nov 20, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Symmetrical Scales Symmetrical Scales are called like this because they are built out of structures that repeat, for instance the two most common ones are the whole tone scale (consisting only – as the name implies – out of whole tone steps) and the...
Nov 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Rhythmical “Engines” Particularly in action and adventure scenes, the scoring usually relies heavily on pushing rhythms and lots of rhythmical activity. If you do not want to fall back to using percussion all the way through or even a drum kit in such sequences, you...
Nov 18, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Several Composers on One Project In the current media world with increasingly tighter deadlines, it has become quite common to have more than one composer on one project, not only for different sub departments (e.g. one composer for score and one for songs) but even...
