May 7, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Satisfying the Customer vs. Satisfying Yourself Quite often clients will be pleased already with quite mediocre products and many composers develop a habit of saying “The customer’s happy, that’s all that counts.” While from a purely business-related viewpoint this...
May 1, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Alternative Chord Structures The structure of having a chord consisting of root, third, fifth etc. is nothing that is written in stone. Alternative chord structures may have a very interesting and useful sound and still sound like a fully working chord. A nice field...
Apr 30, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Music and the Perception of Time Music can alter the perception of time quite heavily. It can actually even work like a subjective slow motion. For example imagine a huge battle, the last few minutes of it, the hero is fighting, lots of fast action and instead of...
Apr 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Non Disclosure Agreements for Composers So-called non disclosure agreements (NDA) are quite common practice in the media world. Some companies/clients handle them very strictly and generally put every project under rigid NDAs (sometimes going as far as having fake cue...
Apr 23, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Working Under Stress Hitting deadlines can be one of the scariest but also most productive things for a composer. When time AND inspiration is short, things can become particularly problematic. However, everybody should develop a strategy to be able to hit deadlines...
Apr 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Excessive String Divisi Many composers coming from the sample world tend to use massively split up string sections. Things like triads in the violas alone, several different violin movements at the same time etc. are very common. While this might work in the sample...
