Aug 7, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Fermatas in Film Scoring When scoring a movie by writing score sheets for the reason of having it played by real instruments at one point, avoid fermatas and breath marks. These musical markings are very open to interpretation and it get’s even more complicated to...
Jul 31, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Physiological effect of bass frequencies You should be aware, that music (or rather sound) will have a physiological effect on the body if it exceeds a certain volume. The for a film composer great thing about that is, that your audience can not gain concious control...
Jul 24, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring, Working Together
Misleading Briefs by Clients One of the most annoying things are misleading briefs by clients. It’s not too uncommon to get a temp track or a comment by a client that completely sets you on the wrong track of what they actually want. One classic is the temp track...
Jul 17, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Integrating Hit points musically Hit points in the music should never feel like you added an element at random on top of a music bed just to hit an action. Great film music manages to give hit points a musical plausability. If you listen to that music alone, you...
Jul 10, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring, Working Together
Asking questions Sometimes, when you get an edit of a movie to work on it might be highly incomplete, with lots of placeholders, storyboard cut-ins etc. so it might be tricky to actually understand the story or important details. Also, sometimes, the storyline will...
