Fix filmic shortcomings with music

Sep 4, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Fix filmic shortcomings with music One quite big part of scoring for films that is very rarely mentioned in books is to compensate for shortcomings in the film making. This happens especially at the beginning of a career where you work on amateur or semi pro...

Placement of Hit Points

Aug 28, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Placement of Hit Points The exact placement of musical hit points is very often a matter of psychology and should be done quite carefully. On quite a few hit points it’s not the most effective thing to place the musical accent exactly on the visual action but rather...

Musical Drones

Aug 21, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Musical Drones While they are musically not spectacular at all, drones are very effective in film scoring. A drone is usually a long sustaining note or set of notes, usually in the lower register that keeps ringing without any or much musical variation through a...

Unaccompanied Melodies

Aug 14, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Unaccompanied Melodies Unaccompanied melodies can have a fantastic effect in a movie when placed cleverly. The “lonely” instrument or section filling up the musical space has a beautiful and haunting quality and can either create an extreme intimacy which is for...

Fermatas in Film Scoring

Aug 7, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Fermatas in Film Scoring When scoring a movie by writing score sheets for the reason of having  it played by real instruments at one point, avoid fermatas and breath marks. These musical markings are very open to interpretation and it get’s even more complicated to...