Dec 18, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
“Treading Water” Between Hit Points Writing music for film often has a danger of just writing “bridgeing” music that just fills time until the next hit point. While sometimes it can’t be avoided to just fill bars between hit points in order to not have an overly...
Dec 10, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Scene Change Transition Cues Music can help a lot to smoothen rough transitions between scenes. Particularly scene transitions that change location and time can often feel very rough. Having music cues over such scene changes that deliberately de-emphasize the...
Oct 25, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
True Legato and Portamento Sample Overuse One of the most overused things in midi mockups are true legato and even worse: portamento patches. With many people using these patches overly extensively the result is very often a piece that sounds like chewing gum. Be...
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 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Working Around Songs and Source Music Many movies nowadays don’t only contain score music but also songs that are usually not written by the score composer but licensed. Also, the places where they are used in the movie are usually already fixed before the composer...
