Dec 16, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Standing in Front of an Orchestra for the First Time Depending on the status of your career, sooner or later every composer working professionally in the film or media music business at one time will have his or her first moment working with a real orchestra. Standing...
Dec 11, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Balance Between Surprise and Being Expectable Compositions that are considered attractive and interesting by most listeners usually find a balance between being expectable and suprising. This applies from the smallets structures to the largest extents of the...
Oct 11, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Mood Killers in Scoring Sessions An orchestra is not only an ensemble of different instruments but also a group of human beings. Psychological factors can influence the performance quite heavily, not only whether it is a rainy day or things like that but also by the...
Apr 1, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Sending Out More Than One Cue If you’re working on a film score or a project that involves writing more than one cue, it might generally be a good idea to send out small batches of several cues to get feedback rather than sending out each cue one by one. If you...