Jun 18, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Strategies for Writing Music to Unfinished Edits Unfortunately, there are quite often situations where you need to start writing music to an un-locked cut in order to be able to hit the deadline. While this situation is far from ideal due to picture lock dates being...
Jun 6, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Recording in Two Minute Chunks Recording action passages and music that demands a lot from your players is best to be split into approx. two minute chunks and later edit them together again. With this procedure, the musicians can focus on certain passages and pull...
Mar 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Vague Client Feedback One of the most annoying things when scoring a film is getting inconclusive and vague feedback from your client. If you are not sure why your customer doesn’t like a particular cue even after he/she has given feedback on it, keep asking...
Oct 2, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Musical Hits on Cuts Try to avoid placing hit points or musical accents/downbeats on cuts except for moments where it is meant to be like that (e.g. trailers/spoofs). In general, you should rather try to disguise cuts with your music rather than making them even more...
