Nov 11, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
How to Read Movie Scripts Sometimes, you need to start working or conceptualizing a score already with nothing more than a script. Be aware that this is not like reading a book and without experience you’ll probably quickly get a wrong impression of what it’s...
Jun 26, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Breaking the Rules Breaking musical rules can be great to create musical structures that sound fresh and interesting and basically every rule in music can be broken. The essential part is to be confident and consequent when you break them. For instance if you use a...
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...
Oct 30, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Watching Rough Cuts When you see a film you’re going to be working on for the first time, there might be a big chance that it is far away from picture lock and you might easily be lead on the wrong track regarding its dynamics. Usually you get a quite rough cut which...