Jan 7, 2020 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
De-Emphasizing Apart from emphasizing certain scenes/actions/lines etc., music can also do the complete opposite and de-emphasize. This might be needed especially when you have to help over bad acting, which might occur even in very professional productions....
May 14, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Artistically Ambitous Film Scoring While ambitous film scoring is definitely something that can be very attractive and thought provoking, especially young composers tend to push this a little too far in their search to reinvent the wheel. The essential difference...
Jan 15, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Musical Logic of Hit Points Whenever you score a sequence that includes hit-points that need to sync up with the video, many inexperienced film composers go the way of superimposing orchestral effects on top of the music in order to accent the hit points they need to...
Jan 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Scoring Perspective There are usually several perspectives from which you could score a certain scene. Usually, you have the character’s perspective, the audience’s perspective and the perspective of an omniscient narrator. Often, there are even more perspectives and...
Dec 11, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Dramatic Links beyond Leitmotifs There are many more possibilities when scoring a film (or rather when writing music at all) to create dramatic connections. Every single musical element can serve the purpose of connecting cues. Obviously, a melodic idea is the...
