Jan 31, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Streamlined Working Environment Keep your working environment streamlined and focused. Many people like buying all sorts of gear or sample library they can get their fingers on and believe it will improve their output quality but in reality, the more you have the...
Jan 30, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Stylistic Diversity in One Film Even though the genre of film music allows a pretty wide variety of stylistics close to each other without feeling weird there are definitely limits to how far you can stretch the musical diversity in one film. This also includes to not...
Jan 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Be Aware of Reel Changes? Many books on film scoring mention to avoid having any music over reel changes. Not too long ago when most film projection was done analog (meaning to actually have big reels of film being put into projectors), films were broken down into...
Jan 28, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Creative Disagreement Working for somebody doesn’t mean that you have to agree with him/her all the time. Don’t be afraid of arguments when discussing about the path a project should go musically. Many directors/producers I met prefer a composer who has a strong own...