Feb 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Working Around Songs and Source Music Many movies nowadays don’t only contain score music but also songs that are usually not written by the score composer but licensed. Also, the places where they are used in the movie are usually already fixed before the composer...
Jan 30, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Stylistic Diversity in One Film Even though the genre of film music allows a pretty wide variety of stylistics close to each other without feeling weird there are definitely limits to how far you can stretch the musical diversity in one film. This also includes to not...
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 12, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Atonality in Film Scoring Atonality can be a great colour when writing music for films and can create a unsettling, almost painful feeling. However, as it is already extremely demanding to “understand” the structure of this music when you hear it even without a movie,...
Nov 13, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Presenting Ideas to a Client Finding the right thematic material and having both parties (you and your customer/director) agree on it can take quite some time. When you present possible themes/ideas, it is common today to present them in their best shape as directors...
