Jul 9, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Classical Counterpoint in Film Scoring To have a thorough knowledge of classical counterpoint writing is definitley benefitial to sharpen your musical understanding but the strict classic rules hardly have any application in modern (film) writing. The term...
Jul 2, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
First View Experience Many inexperienced composers forget the perspective of the “first view” when scoring a film. Due to the fact that as a composer you watch the movie or scenes so many times your way of perception shifts during that time and you tend to forget the...
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...
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 11, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Disguising Tempo Changes On rhythmically active music, tempo changes are quite obvious and can drag so much attention on themselves that they might not be appropriate in certain scoring situations. But of course they might be necessary as the scene changes pace etc. A...
