Cinema style composing

[Per]

When I make a composition, I usually pick up the structure of a movie.
It is a good way to create drama progressions in the music that can be a guideline for the audience. Just think of an old black and white western film:

Start, desert, a lone rider (Slow intro, bass drones)
He enters the city, meets the guy in black hat at the saloon (sequencer patterns, )
They argue . (Rise in intensity)
He rides up to the sad widower that is about to loose her farm (drones again, short notes)
The bad guy attacks the farm (the sequencer pattern is back, with more energy added)
The attack ends (down to a short quiet part until..)
Shoot out in the street, bad guy dies (last fast sequencer part, rise to max level before i gets calo, with slow bass notes)
The End (the music fades away, just like the lone rider...)

A cheap trick, but it works...
Per

[aldanasjuan]

Its is cheap, but when you have to work with the pros it gets a litle bit more complicated. What you have there is the spotting ideas. But you also need specific timing cues like: bad guy dies "0:22 to 0:31" and a description of the scene and music feel etc. And it goes like that in the whole movie. So you end up with hundreds of spoting ideas and cues, wich the don't always have the same tempo, feel, purpose, instrumentation, etc. So basically what you have there is step number 1 of the scoring process.

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[Rykhaard]

The pressures! (I've read about it, in the past, as well.) No thanks Jack!

Maybe I'm sorta ... off-centre backwards or something but, I'd rather have the movie written to my soundtracks.

[gaitchs]

[bachus]