Nov 6, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Music as Slow Motion Device Music can alter the perception of time quite heavily. It can actually even work like a subjective slow motion.For example imagine a huge battle, the last few minutes of it, the hero is fighting, lots of fast action and instead of bringing...
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...
Oct 23, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Musical Silence Musical silence can be one of the most powerful “scoring” devices you can use. It works especially well in scenes where you want the viewer to be pulled into the reality of that scene, especially if it is a very intense scene. Leaving out music in...
Oct 16, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Audience’s Attention in the Movies Be aware that at least 75% of the audience’s attention during a movie lies on the images. As a consequence, writing too subtle (e.g. bringing a hint of the main theme in an accompanying figure etc) when it needs to have a...
Oct 9, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Creative Work vs. Office Duties You need to plan in quite some time into your work schedule for communication and organization. Don’t believe that you can compose/produce music without interruption during your “scoring weeks”. It might not seem like much on first...
