Mar 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Using Collective Musical Memories Certain musical tropes, colours and paths are so strongly connected in the collective memories of people with certain emotions/situations that they’re becoming a musical cliché. Imagine Glockenspiel, Celesta etc. or the lydian...
Mar 13, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Reharmonisation Fundamentals Reharmonisation of a melody is a very attractive way for musical development and is constantly used in film music to shape a theme according to the mood that is needed. The possibilities are almost endless and you could reharmonize by just...
Mar 12, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Scoring Kissing Scenes Many inexperienced composers tend to score kiss scenes overly climactic and cheesy which almost always feels like a bad caricature of the whole scene. There are only few kiss scenes in movies nowadays that need the big orchestral sweep or that...
Jan 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Emotional Manipulation Remember that music has the power to manipulate emotionally and therefore alter the perception and eventually opinion of the audience. Very often this happens even on a subconscious level for the audience. This is why music has and is being used...
Oct 30, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Watching Rough Cuts When you see a film you’re going to be working on for the first time, there might be a big chance that it is far away from picture lock and you might easily be lead on the wrong track regarding its dynamics. Usually you get a quite rough cut which...
