Dec 4, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Musical Humor There is a very thin line between funny scoring and silly scoring. Inexperienced composers tend to overwrite funny scenes by composing silly music. Not every character who has a clumsy side needs to have a score that points its finger at that. Usually,...
Dec 3, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
(Re-)Scoring Blockbuster Scenes Many especially young composers are looking for film material to practice scoring. And due to many of them wanting to write so-called epic music, it becomes even trickier to find footage as it’s not particularly easy to find amateur or...
Nov 30, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Scale Run Structures 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....
Nov 29, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Protools in the Film Scoring World No matter what DAW you use to work in and produce, when working in the film scoring field you should have at least elementary knowledge of using Protools. Most recording studios run on that software providing nothing more but a...
Nov 27, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Melodic Ideas in the Same Register Ethnic references in the music can be a very sensitive issue. When they are stated inappropriately, it might quickly feel like a racist musical remark even though your intentions were purely to “localize” a character. In general,...
