Nov 25, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Staying Up To Date Watch as many movies as you can. If you want to seriously work in the film music field, you need to know what is going on in the “business”, you need to get an understanding of how music is used in movies and also what current developments take...
Sep 10, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Typecasting Composers Typecasting happens quite quickly and is a very annoying situation for most composers or practically any creative person. Once you have a notable success in a genre or in a job, probably most follow-up jobs will be more or less of the same kind...
Aug 28, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Expanding Your Comfort Zone Deliberately move out of your comfort zone from time to time. Even if you feel highly uncomfortable writing music in a different style or for a different line up than what you’re used to, it is a great exercise and will sharpen your skills....
Jul 23, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Doubling Strong Emotions with Music Strong emotions that are portrayed visually in the movie (e.g. someone crying desperately) feel rather awkward when they get doubled by the music. You are usually better off scoring such moments rather sparsely or possibly even...
Jan 30, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Stylistic Diversity in One Film Even though the genre of film music allows a pretty wide variety of stylistics close to each other without feeling weird there are definitely limits to how far you can stretch the musical diversity in one film. This also includes to not...
