Aug 9, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Tone Colour in the Woodwind Section When writing for woodwinds, you have to be aware that you’re dealing with groups of instruments of highly diverse tone colour. Combining instruments in this section will never create a homogenous sound that is comparable to the one...
Aug 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Learn Your Tools Working as a composer for commercial media requires you to stay up to date regarding technical and stylistic developments. This means, it is part of the job to more or less regularly get accustomed to a new piece of soft- or hardware. This could be...
Aug 7, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Rhythmic Offset of Key Motifs In order to keep a composition interesting, try to rhythmically offset your motif now and then. If you’re melodic idea is based on a motivic idea being placed on every downbeat of a bar, try moving that motif to a different rhythmical...
Aug 6, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Finding Thematic Material Finding the right thematic material and having both parties (you and your customer/director) agree on it can take quite some time. When you present possible themes, it is common today to present them in their best shape as directors very...
Aug 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Difficulty of Networking at Networking Events Very often, business connections are not made in places where they are expected to be made (e.g. business meetings, fairs, festivals etc.) but rather in places where you normally won’t expect them. The simple reason...
