Aug 27, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Overstretching the Possibilities of Film Music There’s just a certain range of how far you can musically push something in a movie that is not there but is supposed to be there. At a certain point of trying to push too hard, it just gets ridiculous. Especially scenes...
Jul 2, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
First View Experience Many inexperienced composers forget the perspective of the “first view” when scoring a film. Due to the fact that as a composer you watch the movie or scenes so many times your way of perception shifts during that time and you tend to forget the...
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...
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...
