Jun 25, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Connecting Close Cues If during the planning of your score you notice that two ore more cues will be pretty close together (meaning less than 30 seconds in between), unless that moment of silence is essential (point of a joke, strong emotional moment etc.), you should...
May 21, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Cue Naming Discipline It is incredibly important to have a strong discipline regarding naming, sorting and organizing versions of music cues. Sometimes you need to write several versions of a cue, sometimes you just need to change small things several times, and every...
Mar 7, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Sustains at the End of Film Cues You should always make sure to have long enough last chords/sustains in film music cues that are supposed to “vanish” into nothing as the fade-out time needed might be longer than you think. If you end too early, the fade-out might be...
Feb 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Rewriting Cues Due to Re-Cuts Rewrites of cues due to re-cuts of the movie are very annoying but unfortunately quite common. If the edits are not as drastic (like trimming a few frames here and there), there a good chances that you can make your old cue fit again by...
