Tuesday 11 March 2014
Wednesday 5 March 2014
P1. COMPOSING FOR FILM P1
9 tips when writing music for films.
1. Network, communicate, keeping up with the contacts.
Always keep your eyes and eyes peeled for new music opportunities, if your a writer, Dj or composer always keep yourself in range of film creator as copyright can cost a lot for directors and if your there to hand then you can be doing very well in the music market and have your music in films and this will also pay well.
2. Know what the film director wants.
Always listen carefully to film directors and what ort of music they want in their film so you can go away and create that piece of music or similar and if its to there liking you have made yourself some money and marketing.
3. Ask for references materials.
Ask the director for any song that they like or would like any genres similar to that as it will make it easier for you to get an idea of what they want, but just use this as a guideline to what to create not to copy and pass of as your own will minor difference.
4.Make sure you have the right gear.
When creating a piece of music for a film director make sure that you have the right equipment to suit what they want for example if they wanted a sound of a live and it wouldn't be much good to recreate sounds using music software or of music library's because your not giving the director what they really want.
5. Be original
If you are not original they you will not stand out from the crowd and in the directors mind. Do not try to recreate and already known piece of music with just some differences because that will not satasfy the director and might not want to use your piece of music.
6.Experiment
Try to experiment with different types of music genre, beats and sounds so that you give off a wide rang of different types of music, this will show that you are more interesting and will have a better chance of using your music. Look at other film that the director have done to find out his type of music choice and try to fit it with with what he wants and being different is never a bad thing.
7. Avoid music cliché
Avoid making your music sounding the same because you do not want people to think that it is just the same type of music through the film or films. This will bore and audience and you wont making any progress in your career.
8. Keep the director in the loop.
Keep your director in close contact you don't want to end up making a brilliant piece of music but with a different type of genre of what they director wanted.
9. Keep what format the director needs.
Make sure you make the music in the right formate for what the director needs or wants for example ADAT, DAT, eds, AIFF files or WAV files. What ever you do, do not make the files MP3!
Hans Zimmer intentions when making the sound track for Dark Night was "not just to make a summer block buster, truly provocative and people could truly hate"
The qualities that Hans Zimmer wanted.
1 To make it sound like razor blades of string.
2. Making it the minimum that he possible could and people still recognise it when they heard it.
3. Define a character in one not.
I think the final peice works really was as, as he said the sound keeps drawing you in more and more just like the way that he joker does in the films and you defiantly can associate that sound with him and the way he is in the film.
1. Network, communicate, keeping up with the contacts.
Always keep your eyes and eyes peeled for new music opportunities, if your a writer, Dj or composer always keep yourself in range of film creator as copyright can cost a lot for directors and if your there to hand then you can be doing very well in the music market and have your music in films and this will also pay well.
2. Know what the film director wants.
Always listen carefully to film directors and what ort of music they want in their film so you can go away and create that piece of music or similar and if its to there liking you have made yourself some money and marketing.
3. Ask for references materials.
Ask the director for any song that they like or would like any genres similar to that as it will make it easier for you to get an idea of what they want, but just use this as a guideline to what to create not to copy and pass of as your own will minor difference.
4.Make sure you have the right gear.
When creating a piece of music for a film director make sure that you have the right equipment to suit what they want for example if they wanted a sound of a live and it wouldn't be much good to recreate sounds using music software or of music library's because your not giving the director what they really want.
5. Be original
If you are not original they you will not stand out from the crowd and in the directors mind. Do not try to recreate and already known piece of music with just some differences because that will not satasfy the director and might not want to use your piece of music.
6.Experiment
Try to experiment with different types of music genre, beats and sounds so that you give off a wide rang of different types of music, this will show that you are more interesting and will have a better chance of using your music. Look at other film that the director have done to find out his type of music choice and try to fit it with with what he wants and being different is never a bad thing.
7. Avoid music cliché
Avoid making your music sounding the same because you do not want people to think that it is just the same type of music through the film or films. This will bore and audience and you wont making any progress in your career.
8. Keep the director in the loop.
Keep your director in close contact you don't want to end up making a brilliant piece of music but with a different type of genre of what they director wanted.
9. Keep what format the director needs.
Make sure you make the music in the right formate for what the director needs or wants for example ADAT, DAT, eds, AIFF files or WAV files. What ever you do, do not make the files MP3!
Hans Zimmer intentions when making the sound track for Dark Night was "not just to make a summer block buster, truly provocative and people could truly hate"
The qualities that Hans Zimmer wanted.
1 To make it sound like razor blades of string.
2. Making it the minimum that he possible could and people still recognise it when they heard it.
3. Define a character in one not.
I think the final peice works really was as, as he said the sound keeps drawing you in more and more just like the way that he joker does in the films and you defiantly can associate that sound with him and the way he is in the film.
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