Jun 7, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Leggiero” and “Pesante” Italian “score sheet poetry” that extensively describes the desired feelings of tempo changes or interpretation is rather uncommon in the scoring session world. Most of the time, the tempo is fixed through a...
Jun 6, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Recording in Two Minute Chunks Recording action passages and music that demands a lot from your players is best to be split into approx. two minute chunks and later edit them together again. With this procedure, the musicians can focus on certain passages and pull...
Jun 5, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Alternative Bass Notes of a Chord Altering the bass note of a chord to a note different than the root note can create quite new harmonic impressions than the original chord. If you change the bass note to a different chord tone like the third or fifth of the chord,...
Jun 4, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Film Music and Emotional Extremes Scenes and situations that are emotionally hardly bearable (major characters dieing, catastrophic plot twists, portrayal of gruesome psychic or physical violence, fatal decisions etc.) need special attention from the musical side. The...
Jun 3, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Project Hierarchy Before you start working on any project, try to determine the hierarchic structure of the people who work on it. On most film projects, the director should be the highest and last instance for creative decisions but it occurs from time to time that...
