Ever wonder how scores are put together for movies? Been thoroughly disappointed at the dearth of books on the subject? And the quality of the books you’ve been able to find?
This link is the MOTHERLOAD for anyone wishing to learn how to compose for film. Leave it to a computer technician to explain the process better than anyone else.
You do have to wade through everything about how to tell a computer to do it but it’s worth it.
Mazz where are you? Check this out!!!
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13924/
Highlights;
Music changes when new emotion or new subject of dialogue is present
When there’s a change of scene or new character introduced.
Camera movement
A new action
Reaction to a dialoge or event
Preference for short repeated motifs by some composers who focus on rhythms and chords
Music modified by whether it’s night or day, inside or outside, transition, location, dialogue and action as well as gender, mood, species, age and body size.
The music may also be written for items/props, locations and occurences. And may take into account increasing age and death of a character.
Music changes as a characters motivations are fulfilled.
Specific events are gain, loss transformation and introduction.
5th interval heroic
chromatic worry
(I would say the descending tritone often represents evil.)
Keys normally change either from major to minor or the reverse as well as cycle of fifths
If strings contain accents then it’s more probably to use brass instead of woodwinds
If strings are smooth then woodwinds a more likely coinciding choice.
Normal chord progressions apply such as IV I if more music is coming or V I if music is ending
If the rhythmic motions of bodies in a scene have determined that scenes rhythm and the next scene does not have any way to determine a rhythm then carry forward the previous rhythm,
If no previous music then a subsequent music’s rhythm is brought backwards.
If neither previous nor subsequent music exists for a scene then default is 120bpm.
2/4 beat is standard if composing based on short repeating rhythms and motifs.
There is a wonderful chart showing the likely hood of key progressions.
And weighting of instruments such as
6 for piano
5 for violin
5 for flute
4 oboe
2 guitar
1 trumpet
Low probability notes exist on low probability beats (weak beats and off beats)
Action Hero gets Strings with Brass in Major Key and Dotted rhythms.
minor fast strings equals dangerous tension
When fighting over a gun, when the hero gets it the music is major, when the villain gets it the music is minor.
Use musical transitions for segment changes
Homophony simple
Polyphony complex
Melody covers notes of the chords
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