Aug 14, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Unaccompanied Melodies Unaccompanied melodies can have a fantastic effect in a movie when placed cleverly. The “lonely” instrument or section filling up the musical space has a beautiful and haunting quality and can either create an extreme intimacy which is for...
Aug 13, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Working on several projects at the same time Unless you get to work on long-term projects alot, being a composer for the media quite often also means organizing and juggling several things and projects at once. While this is not just a challenge from the standpoint of...
Aug 10, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Articulation variety One of the things that makes music interesting and lively is variety in articulation and phrasing. Many composers coming from the sample world hardly ever think about whether a line might work better having it not completely as staccato or not...
Aug 9, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Strategies for using reverb There are probably thousands of philosophies of how to add reverb to a recording. Especially with orchestral tracks, many people are concerned about creating a proper field of depth within the orchestra and create a proper impression of...
Aug 8, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Melodic Shaping One of the things you should keep an eye on when writing music is the form of your melody. Very often, inexperienced composers fall into repeating short-breathed almost identical 2-bar phrases. While it is perfectly fine to do that once in a while and...
Aug 7, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Fermatas in Film Scoring When scoring a movie by writing score sheets for the reason of having it played by real instruments at one point, avoid fermatas and breath marks. These musical markings are very open to interpretation and it get’s even more complicated to...
