Know The Latest Trends In Film Scoring

Things move quickly in the film industry. Just when you assume you have got a grip on how it all goes you find out the game has moved somewhere else. It means if you are in this industry, you need to update yourself with the latest trends especially in film scoring. The intent of this post is also the same. Here we will describe to you some of the latest scoring trends that help you in composing something great. So, without taking much time, let's start the discussion:




Trend No 1: Sound design is the innovative scoring:


Making new sounds out of random waveforms for example taking a chainsaw to a block of ice. Creating new sonic touches that nobody has ever listened to before and then preparing the hell out of them. 


Look at the rise of the Oscar-winning score. Well, have you noticed how Hans Zimmer – a man who is remarkably gifted at creating new paths and spotting where things are working – is actually crafting more sound design than anything else these days? Now when we say sound design it is not always pure waveform-architecture, but more frequently than not mixed with traditional samples or instruments. The tools of preference can be:


  • Batteries of plugins from waves

  • Fabfilter

  • Sound Toys

  • UAD and many others. 


Nowadays, Ableton Live is a frequently recommended tool of choice with sound designers working in video games or even film. See the likes of the prodigiously skilled sound designer and composer at work and you will automatically see why.


Trend No 2: Samples are Final


For those composers who have given many years to create samples sound like a real orchestra, this may be one of those…” oh so the party’s gone somewhere else” moments. It’s not solely true but how many groundbreaking new libraries have come out freshly? Sampling as we understand it is approaching the end of the road in that there is nowhere else to go. 


Remember each and every instrument has been sampled and resampled. Still, there are one or two corners to be filled, a really complete single strings library being one and we wait with bated breath for 8Dios groundbreaking brass library. But actually, the age when sampling is king is coming to an end. There is nothing incorrect with samples. 


Trend No 3: Say No To Royalties


For many years the richest composers have made their possessions from royalties. It shows probably 30-50% of most composers’ incomes. Not for much longer. Royalties are still there. Big films still pay well, library income is still great but the old royalty bread and butter, network television is under great threat. 


Take the examples of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and all the others that definitely pay no royalties at all. This isn’t the end of the world. If we consider the game composers; they have explained to us how you can still make great money at a rate per minute. That’s in part as there never were royalties in games so the rate was set respectively. 


Royalties will remain to pay well for top library music and film composers, but for average composers, it will become a smaller and smaller part of the business.


So, these are the latest trends in film scoring you must be aware of. For more similar updates, stay tuned with us.


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