Oct 9, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Creative Work vs. Office Duties You need to plan in quite some time into your work schedule for communication and organization. Don’t believe that you can compose/produce music without interruption during your “scoring weeks”. It might not seem like much on first...
Oct 2, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Musical Hits on Cuts Try to avoid placing hit points or musical accents/downbeats on cuts except for moments where it is meant to be like that (e.g. trailers/spoofs). In general, you should rather try to disguise cuts with your music rather than making them even more...
Sep 11, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Compose around the sound of a scene Scoring movies is often writing music that needs to fit in a certain frequency range to actually be heard. You need to compete against sound effects and design which in many cases leaves only small possibilities for the music to...
Aug 28, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Placement of Hit Points The exact placement of musical hit points is very often a matter of psychology and should be done quite carefully. On quite a few hit points it’s not the most effective thing to place the musical accent exactly on the visual action but rather...
Aug 21, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Musical Drones While they are musically not spectacular at all, drones are very effective in film scoring. A drone is usually a long sustaining note or set of notes, usually in the lower register that keeps ringing without any or much musical variation through a...
