SCOREcast 31: Total Request (Sorta) LIVE!
In our first Q&A episode, we open up Twitter, Facebook, and a hangout on Google+ to hear what’s on your mind about writing, producing, “politiking”, and navigating the business.
Read More →SCOREcast 28: Richard Bellis
Emmy Award-winning composer Richard Bellis hangs out with SCOREcast for an in-depth look at the state of the film music business.
Read More →Casting Your Score
How to assemble the perfect “cast” of musicians to enhance your score.
Read More →Ryan Leach: Long Distance Scoring
Today’s technology has made it possible to score a project with anyone no matter where they’re located. However, long distance scoring does come with plenty of challenges.
Read More →Spotting With the Composer and the Sound Designer
Discussing spotting is a subject unto itself. Here, Emmy-winning sound mixer David Fluhr talks about the advantages, disadvantages, pluses and minuses of spotting a project with both the composer AND the sound designer in the room with the director.
Read More →Everything *BUT* Spotting
There are all kinds of things besides spotting that make a spotting session important. After the jump, some discussion: what they are, why they’re important, and how to turn them to your advantage. (And yes, I did make a special green logo for St. Patrick’s Day. You’re worth it.)
Read More →Getting In
For the next few weeks I’m going to use this column to dig into the three primary technical aspects of spotting: entrances, exits and function. There are three Fridays left in the month, so I suppose it’s good I thought of doing this now! First up: getting in. Let’s start with when to enter a scene. [...]
Read More →Your First Spotting Experience
A few months ago I composed the score for my first film, a documentary called To Be One. This was a small project with a tiny budget, a flexible schedule, and an easygoing independent director. This suited me fine though, because I didn’t really have much of an idea of how to proceed. But SCOREcast’s [...]
Read More →Funny Looks and Spotting Jujitsu
People look at me funny all the time (I got that out of the way for you, just to save space in the comments!), but never more so than when I express my general philosophy about spotting films: I want to write the least amount of music possible for the project. Nowadays our up-front music [...]
Read More →David Fluhr: Collaborating With Post-Production
Collaboration is a word that certainly can be overused, and trivialized. But I think it can also have everything to do with success– success of a project, success of a career, and success in life. We as creative artists sometimes get tunnel vision, or blinders while working. This can be both a benefit and a [...]
Read More →Shut Your Trap
From time to time it’s the case that I first meet a filmmaker in the context of trying to land their picture—as opposed to having met them in some other capacity beforehand (and thus already knowing them when it’s time to talk about their latest project). I’m reminded what a bad scenario the former case [...]
Read More →Jim Well: Get Smart With SmartSheet
This month’s theme is Gear and Software. I’ll bet you think I’m gonna talk about the latest and greatest library, synth, hunk of rack gear, or atomic banjo tuner – but I’m not. Instead, we’ll explore a game-changer that addresses something you might be overlooking: glue. The kind you can use to keep your projects [...]
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