Oct 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Finding the Right Tempo for a Cue Getting the tempo of a scene right is one of the most essential parts of film scoring. Even the best music can be a disaster when it drags a scene or pushes it too hard. Often there are only few objective indicators to find a tempo...
Aug 13, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
“Fake” Tempo Changes through Rhythmic Subdivisions Rhythmic subdivisions of the same tempo can be a great tool to dramaturgically shape your scene and for creating “fake” tempo changes. Staying in the same tempo while switching back and forth between a pushing eighth...
Apr 30, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Music and the Perception of Time Music can alter the perception of time quite heavily. It can actually even work like a subjective slow motion. For example imagine a huge battle, the last few minutes of it, the hero is fighting, lots of fast action and instead of...
Oct 3, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Composition Speed Many composers are concerned about their output rate and feel intimidated by hearing that composer x wrote the score for feature film y in just a few weeks or something like that. However this whole issue shouldn’t be bothering you too much. The more...
