Jun 7, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Leggiero” and “Pesante” Italian “score sheet poetry” that extensively describes the desired feelings of tempo changes or interpretation is rather uncommon in the scoring session world. Most of the time, the tempo is fixed through a...
Mar 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Simile” Mark in Film Scoring When you’re writing a score sheet, especially when for a film score, rather prefer to use the word “simile” or “sim.” (meaning “in the same way”) where you can instead of articulating/marking everything. This has a massively...
Jan 24, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Marking Scores During Recording Sessions In recording session situations, it is crucial to keep an overview over which parts of a cue are already covered in a good take and which parts still need another take or a few bars to patch them later in the editing. A very...