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...
Jul 11, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Click Track and Gradual Tempo Changes Ritardandos and accelerandos are very tricky to do with a click track that live players need to record to later. Especially the standard tempo changes that DAW’s offer with a constant slowdown or speedup usually feel very...
Jun 18, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Strategies for Writing Music to Unfinished Edits Unfortunately, there are quite often situations where you need to start writing music to an un-locked cut in order to be able to hit the deadline. While this situation is far from ideal due to picture lock dates being...
Jun 11, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Disguising Tempo Changes On rhythmically active music, tempo changes are quite obvious and can drag so much attention on themselves that they might not be appropriate in certain scoring situations. But of course they might be necessary as the scene changes pace etc. A...
Feb 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Rewriting Cues Due to Re-Cuts Rewrites of cues due to re-cuts of the movie are very annoying but unfortunately quite common. If the edits are not as drastic (like trimming a few frames here and there), there a good chances that you can make your old cue fit again by...
