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Spitfire Westworld Competition SPINOFF - Composition Discussion, Advice and Examples

Listened to many of these. Good action cues on many. Anyone use Junkie XL brass? Seems like that could have been a good fit.
 
Listened to many of these. Good action cues on many. Anyone use Junkie XL brass? Seems like that could have been a good fit.

I had planned to, but I ended up being happy enough with Spitfire's Symphonic Brass that I started with for sketching (well, plus a few CineBrass patches when I needed just a bit more). If I had more time, it would certainly be interesting to swap in JXL Brass and compare the results.
 
Hello everyone,
This has been a great thread with tons of insight on scoring to picture which was invaluable for a newbie like me. I just uploaded mine and I would love some feedback from the great people in this forum. I went for an 80's synth vibe after the genre change and after the first explosion for a hybrid of synths/orchestra.

 
It surprises me how many entries totally have the music too loud and you cant hear much of the speech or fx.

I mean i know we want our music to shine through, but i can't help but feel that they will want it mixed properly so you can still hear most of everything going on.
 
Hello everyone,
This has been a great thread with tons of insight on scoring to picture which was invaluable for a newbie like me. I just uploaded mine and I would love some feedback from the great people in this forum. I went for an 80's synth vibe after the genre change and after the first explosion for a hybrid of synths/orchestra.



We have a winner. You heard it here first.
 
It surprises me how many entries totally have the music too loud and you cant hear much of the speech or fx.

I mean i know we want our music to shine through, but i can't help but feel that they will want it mixed properly so you can still hear most of everything going on.

That was my big complaint as well, but then I went back to the original version, and the Valkyries piece is mixed very loud as well.
 
Hello everyone,
This has been a great thread with tons of insight on scoring to picture which was invaluable for a newbie like me. I just uploaded mine and I would love some feedback from the great people in this forum. I went for an 80's synth vibe after the genre change and after the first explosion for a hybrid of synths/orchestra.



I really liked the falling away sound as the missile speeds past its intended target but I didn't find the last minute of the score quite as interesting as what had gone before.
 
We have a winner. You heard it here first.
You're too kind! Thanks a lot!
I really liked the falling away sound as the missile speeds past its intended target but I didn't find the last minute of the score quite as interesting as what had gone before.
Thanks for the feedback. With this kind of projects I always struggle with keeping it both interesting and consistent all the way through.
 
It surprises me how many entries totally have the music too loud and you cant hear much of the speech or fx.

I mean i know we want our music to shine through, but i can't help but feel that they will want it mixed properly so you can still hear most of everything going on.
I had to go back and remix because somewhere in my 1st bounce you could barely hear the conversation and I had written the music specifically around the conversation. I don't think you learn anything if you cover the dialogue.
 
Hello everyone,
This has been a great thread with tons of insight on scoring to picture which was invaluable for a newbie like me. I just uploaded mine and I would love some feedback from the great people in this forum. I went for an 80's synth vibe after the genre change and after the first explosion for a hybrid of synths/orchestra.



That is good work !

It works well with the video, the dialogs & fx are still fully audible and the mix renders well even on cellphone speaker.
Probably the best I watched (but I only watched a handful).
 
I went for an 80's synth vibe after the genre change and after the first explosion for a hybrid of synths/orchestra.



Really enjoyed your initial genre transition from those bending strings to 80s synths + toms. I think I wanted the track to keep building up in energy much more than it did, so I also felt like it was losing steam rather than increasing in intensity up to the ending. But really fun vibe + mood.
 
Hello everyone,
This has been a great thread with tons of insight on scoring to picture which was invaluable for a newbie like me. I just uploaded mine and I would love some feedback from the great people in this forum. I went for an 80's synth vibe after the genre change and after the first explosion for a hybrid of synths/orchestra.


GREAT atmosphere
 
I have to agree with that this is a great thread. I fully intent to check out as many of the entries posted here as I can. What I enjoyed about doing this one is really the opportunity to work with some great source material. I never watched the show myself but writing the music on something with some great cinematography was very inspiring.

In my own entry ( with no hope of winning, there's so much talent out there ) I really wanted to enforce that this scene would be a show off piece of the show and really keep the pace up. I have seen many entries that do the opposite and slow down the pace of the scene. Isn't it just wonderful how music can change your perception of a scene completely. I think that's why we're all here and something like this is just a great celebration of that.

Anyway, here's my submission:

 
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