Dec 20, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
CLASSICAL MUSICIANS AND CLICK TRACKS Don’t expect every musician to be able to record with click tracks. Classical musicians who don’t do a lot of film work often have big problems when recording with a click track which has several reasons: First of all, classical...
Dec 19, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Tonic Chord overuse Have an eye out for how quickly you return to the tonic chord. Almost in every case, returning back to to the tonic chord feels like “closing off” a phrase. So every time you reach that chord, your listener’s perception will give him/her the...
Dec 18, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Transporting New Information With Music The ideal function of film music is to add something to a scene that isn’t already transported by the pictures. Film scores that solely focus on doubling or commenting the information that are already transported by the images...
Dec 17, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Calculating your own fee Many composers who just start out in the field are often unsure about how much money to ask for a job before they are hired fearing that if they ask for too much they will lose the job. Also, the insecurity often comes from simply not knowing...
Dec 14, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
OVER-ORchestration Even though you have a lot of instruments at your fingertips when writing for orchestra, that doesn’t mean they have to be all in use all the time. A lot of inexperienced composers and orchestrators often “over-orchestrate” staying for long in a...
Dec 13, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Project Archiving After you have finished a project, put some effort into archiving it properly. Just because you know now that all final project files are in an obscurely named folder deep down in the folder structure doesn’t mean you will remember that in a year...
