I’m Not Saying Aliens Wrote This “House of Cards” Cue, But…
We break down the super hip “fourthi-fifthiness” sounding interval leap in this downright gorgeous cue from the “House of Cards” score.
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Listen Up! 5 Films That Put Sound in the Spotlight
Sound is often as much a part of the cinema experience as music, but doesn’t always get to be part of the “plot”—here are 5 films about sound.
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How to Set up a Film Scoring Session in Your DAW
Nervous about getting started on a film or media sync project in your DAW? Here’s everything you need to know to professionalize your session
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How Scary Film Music Actually Comes Across as “Scary”
From sound design to music theory to auditory phenomena, here are the reasons why horror film score music can actually spook us to death!
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6 Pop Songwriters Turned Film Score Composers
Who’s the first composer you think of when you think of film scoring? They probably started in pop music, and that says something!
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How to Write an Award-Winning Film Score
The composer behind the award-winning music from the short film, The Nobody Prayer, lays out his 7 simple keys to success.
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Exploring the Functions of Music in Visual Media
Underscore and sound design can serve a variety of different purposes in film and TV, here are a plethora of scene music function examples.
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What Is Leitmotif, and How Do You Use It? (Video)
Another exclusive video lesson from Soundfly’s Intro to Scoring for Film & TV course, this one on the creative composing power of leitmotif.
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10 Films and TV Shows With Distinctive Sonic Worlds
These days, scoring for film and TV is as much about the sound palette a composer uses as it is about the music itself. Here are 10 examples.
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A Brief History of Film Scoring (Video)
In this exclusive video lesson, we attempt the impossible: to (briefishly) sum up the entire history of musical scoring in the film industry.
