Oct 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Main Title Sequences Main title sequences have become quite rare these days but when you have the chance to score one, use it effectively. On a main title, you can set the overall mood of the score and the movie, you can introduce your thematic material and therefore...
Aug 6, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Finding Thematic Material Finding the right thematic material and having both parties (you and your customer/director) agree on it can take quite some time. When you present possible themes, it is common today to present them in their best shape as directors very...
Jul 16, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Narrative Links Beyond Themes Themes are not the only thing that can be used to identify characters/locations/situations musically. In fact, using too many themes especially on a genre that usually doesn’t have many themes might just become feeling strangely operatic...
Jun 19, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
MOtivic Development Great composers are not measured by the amount of ideas they have but rather what they do with a few ideas. Very often, young or inexperienced composers tend to write pieces that play out one idea just to move on to another idea etc. while losing a...
Apr 3, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Melodic Target Notes Melodic target notes of a phrase should be avoided for as long as possible before reaching that target. For example, if your melodic phrase has a target note of a c, you should try to not use that c (if possible also in no other octave) in the...
