Mar 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Relevance of Playback Medium for Film Scoring Always be conscious about what medium you’re writing music for. The audience has a different focus on the story, the visuals and the music when sitting in a dark cinema staring at a huge screen as opposed to watching a...
Feb 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Rewriting Cues Due to Re-Cuts Rewrites of cues due to re-cuts of the movie are very annoying but unfortunately quite common. If the edits are not as drastic (like trimming a few frames here and there), there a good chances that you can make your old cue fit again by...
Feb 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Working Around Songs and Source Music Many movies nowadays don’t only contain score music but also songs that are usually not written by the score composer but licensed. Also, the places where they are used in the movie are usually already fixed before the composer...
Feb 12, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Anticipating Hit Points One of the most overlooked things by learning composers is the difference between a hit point that can be anticipated by the audience and one that can’t. Unfortunately, these issues are not discussed a lot in literature on film scoring but are...
Feb 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Thematic Overuse Not every appearance of your main character in the movie needs a statement of his/her theme. Repeating a theme too often can very quickly become annoying or drift off into an unwanted comedic effect. In general, thematic statements are best placed...
Jan 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Be Aware of Reel Changes? Many books on film scoring mention to avoid having any music over reel changes. Not too long ago when most film projection was done analog (meaning to actually have big reels of film being put into projectors), films were broken down into...
