Feb 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Thematic Overuse Not every appearance of your main character in the movie needs a statement of his/her theme. Repeating a theme too often can very quickly become annoying or drift off into an unwanted comedic effect. In general, thematic statements are best placed...
Jan 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Be Aware of Reel Changes? Many books on film scoring mention to avoid having any music over reel changes. Not too long ago when most film projection was done analog (meaning to actually have big reels of film being put into projectors), films were broken down into...
Jan 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Emotional Manipulation Remember that music has the power to manipulate emotionally and therefore alter the perception and eventually opinion of the audience. Very often this happens even on a subconscious level for the audience. This is why music has and is being used...
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...
Dec 18, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Transporting New Information With Music The ideal function of film music is to add something to a scene that isn’t already transported by the pictures. Film scores that solely focus on doubling or commenting the information that are already transported by the images...
