Feb 7, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Placebo Effect When Mixing/Mastering Mixing and mastering has a lot of placebo effect potential and considering all the esotheric advices and approaches that some people advocate for on the internet regarding the improvement of their mixes, it is also a field to get...
Feb 6, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Shared Chord Tones A very commonly used concept in film music to write chord progressions is the concept of shared chord tones. Basically you could treat every chord as a new tonic and find the next chord by moving to a chord that shares at least one chord tone with...
Feb 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Thematic Overuse Not every appearance of your main character in the movie needs a statement of his/her theme. Repeating a theme too often can very quickly become annoying or drift off into an unwanted comedic effect. In general, thematic statements are best placed...
Feb 4, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Ghostwriting It happens from time to time that you’re asked to ghost write for someone else, which means that you transfer your authorship to someone else and will not be credited for your work. While this practice officially is illegal in most European countries...
Feb 1, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Harp – Interlocking Hands Unfortunately, the Harp is not covered in great detail in many orchestration books, leading learning composers and orchestrator to believe that there are not much differences between writing for Harp and Piano. One of these differences...
