Mar 7, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Sustains at the End of Film Cues You should always make sure to have long enough last chords/sustains in film music cues that are supposed to “vanish” into nothing as the fade-out time needed might be longer than you think. If you end too early, the fade-out might be...
Mar 6, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Planning a Composition In spite of many composition teachers and professors recommending to plan out a composition properly beforehand and making sketches to create a proper structure and drama for a piece, letting a composition develop out of itself might be a valid...
Mar 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Relevance of Playback Medium for Film Scoring Always be conscious about what medium you’re writing music for. The audience has a different focus on the story, the visuals and the music when sitting in a dark cinema staring at a huge screen as opposed to watching a...
Mar 4, 2019 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Director-Composer Relationship Once there has been established a working relationship between a director and a composer, as long as both parties are happy with this relationship, it will usually last for quite a while. While this is beneficial and makes a few...
Mar 1, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Col Legno” on Strings A quite interesting sounding and more commonly used special playing technique on string instruments is the so called “col legno”, which translated means “with the wood”. Probably one of the most well known use of it is the beginning...
Feb 28, 2019 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Technical Skills for a Film Composer Quite a few composers who want to work for film reject to work on their technical skills. Very often an argument like “John Williams got to where he is by just writing short scores on paper and demoing things on the piano.” While...
