Dec 16, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Standing in Front of an Orchestra for the First Time Depending on the status of your career, sooner or later every composer working professionally in the film or media music business at one time will have his or her first moment working with a real orchestra. Standing...
Oct 31, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Breakdown Charts When you’re recording your music live, so-called breakdown charts are very helpful. Basically, this chart lists every cue that needs to be recorded with title, length and specific instrumentation of the cue. Also, it notes specials like when there’s a...
Oct 24, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Overdubbing Small Line-Ups Overdubbing the same instruments to create a bigger and more epic sound only works to a certain extent. While it is possible to overdub a quite large string section to give it a little bit more substance and power against the...
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...
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...
