De-Emphasizing

Jan 7, 2020 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

De-Emphasizing Apart from emphasizing certain scenes/actions/lines etc., music can also do the complete opposite and de-emphasize. This might be needed especially when you have to help over bad acting, which might occur even in very professional productions....

Package Deals

Jan 6, 2020 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General

Package Deals There are basically two different ways of how the music budget of a production is being coordinated. 1.) The composer gets a fee for writing the music and any additional expenses for the production of the music (including orchestra recordings,...

Exotic Scale Runs

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....

Mixing Dialogue Underscore

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...

“Treading Water” Between Hit Points

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...