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...
Sep 4, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Fix filmic shortcomings with music One quite big part of scoring for films that is very rarely mentioned in books is to compensate for shortcomings in the film making. This happens especially at the beginning of a career where you work on amateur or semi pro...
Aug 21, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Musical Drones While they are musically not spectacular at all, drones are very effective in film scoring. A drone is usually a long sustaining note or set of notes, usually in the lower register that keeps ringing without any or much musical variation through a...
Aug 14, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Unaccompanied Melodies Unaccompanied melodies can have a fantastic effect in a movie when placed cleverly. The “lonely” instrument or section filling up the musical space has a beautiful and haunting quality and can either create an extreme intimacy which is for...
Jul 3, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Wall to wall music in short films Quite a few short movies need music wall to wall, which means to start the music at the beginning of the film and don’t interrupt it till the end of the end credits. In such situations it still makes a lot of sense to write several...
