March 6, 201115 yr Does anyone know where someone could get scenes of film that have no soundtrack to them? I want to try film scoring but I have nothing to try and score. Anything will help. Thanks.
March 6, 201115 yr I would suggest something you're not necessarily familiar with. At least in my experience. It's good to draw from stuff you know, but not too well. For example, there are certain movies I could sing the entire soundtrack from start to finish. This would ultimately probably adversely affect you composition. But something where you know the story, but the soundtrack is vague or so entwined within the movie that it's not hard to just put it on mute and let your music tell the story you're seeing.
March 6, 201115 yr http://silent-movies.com/Multiplex/ this link might help, especially as silent movies used to have a live organ/piano player with them, either with music formt he studios or improvised.
March 7, 201115 yr Does anyone know where someone could get scenes of film that have no soundtrack to them? I want to try film scoring but I have nothing to try and score. Anything will help. Thanks. The PERFECT movie for you would be Alfred Hitchcocks "The Birds". Not a STITCH of underscore in the entire movie!! You are totally on your own as far as underscore is concerned. Get a copy on DVD and watch it-I think you will agree with me!
March 7, 201115 yr Silent movies are crap for this. For one, the pacing is out of place for anything after 1930's film scoring.
March 28, 201114 yr Hey! There's that film "Cloverfield" that has no music in it at all? Apart from maybe the credits. You could always buy that (probably already in the bargain bucket although I thought it was quite good), and then, if you want to put it into a DAW you can rip it to the PC? Hope that helps Daryl
March 28, 201114 yr Wearing my "contemporary composer" hat, I've wondered this a time or two myself. Thanks for the suggestions.
March 28, 201114 yr It's also sometimes possible to isolate the dialogue and sound effects from the surround mix. Then you can clean up any extra music that might bleed over so that you practically have video + Dx and Fx, but no music. I used to do this back in the day for practice, though it's quite time consuming and difficult, (but not impossible), to do well. Movies without music are usually paced so as to not be conducive to scoring, ESPECIALLY if they have dialogue.
March 28, 201114 yr depends also on what do you want to practice, but basically i think every national geographic or nature movie can be a great source of inspiration and creativity for creating emotions in the scene-obviously some humorous ones, like putting a very dramatic cue, or very action-ish on a cockroach looking for food movie. (and there is no need to remove dialogs or other music also)
March 28, 201114 yr The PERFECT movie for you would be Alfred Hitchcocks "The Birds". Not a STITCH of underscore in the entire movie!! You are totally on your own as far as underscore is concerned. Get a copy on DVD and watch it-I think you will agree with me! I'm not sure about The Birds, the pacing isn't quite the same applying the modern film scoring style to it.
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