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Here’s a tip that’ll change the way you score scenes forever. 🤯
Many composers start scoring to picture by scoring what they see.
If the character is angry, they’ll think:
“What does angry music sound like?”
Here’s the problem.
To make a real impact as a contributor to the picture, the music needs to speak to what we don’t see on the screen.
Is that character really angry?
Or are they just lonely, betrayed, or heartbroken? 💔
(This is what separates the good composers from great ones)
By aiming to capture a character’s unspoken thoughts and feelings, we speak to how they really feel.
That enables our audience to relate to them far deeper than if we mirrored their surface-level emotions.
Here’s a few questions you can ask yourself when spotting a scene to get to the heart of it.
Explore how music can speak to these points, and you’ll notice a huge difference in how it impacts the scene.
Let your music speak to the unspoken.