Dec 20, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Exotic Scale Runs When writing runs for any instrument that is capable of playing runs, you should stick to plausible scales. Instrumentalists practice their whole life to play scale runs in any form – upwards, downwards, starting on different scale degrees etc....
Dec 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Mixing Dialogue Underscore Scoring dialogue scenes comes with a few specific requirements, all of which put emphasize on the necessity to keep the speaking voices understandable in the final mix. In writing, a general rule of thumb is to treat the speakers as if they...
Dec 18, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
“Treading Water” Between Hit Points Writing music for film often has a danger of just writing “bridgeing” music that just fills time until the next hit point. While sometimes it can’t be avoided to just fill bars between hit points in order to not have an overly...
Dec 17, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Season Greetings to Stay in Touch with Clients At least in the western world, Christmas time is the one annual chance to get back in touch or to revive the contact with clients that you maybe haven’t heard of or worked with for a while. Use this opportunity to...
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...
