5 point guide to composing music for film
1) Watch the film without sound, through doing that you will notice every detail and natural sound needed to create the tension needed and atmosphere.
also the emtion of the film will relay better back to the viewer and understand the focus more of the visual and allowing the understanding of sound.
2) Select the instruments, selecting the right instruments is very important because certain instruments give certain emtions and create certain atmospheres within all forms of media so selecting the right instrument is important and then applying that instrument well. for example a piano is great to great a sad emotion but at same time, i find that using the piano is a great base starter instrument for music and creating a piece for a film because it can create any atmosphere then after that for different things you could use a flute for peace and tranquility, drums for tension or battle scenes.
so getting the right instrument for the right moment is important so the atmosphere isn't broken by a saxophone in a funeral scene for example.
3) getting the right beat and flow, it is important to get the right pace for a film or a scene because other wise it will out of time and sound and look bad together to create a unsettling and terrible sequence.
you want to keep a good pace with the actions in place at the time an example would be to have a battle scene with faster music than normal and flowing beat of battle to keep pace of fighting and opposite to that is having a calm scene so the beat would very slow and calm and keeping to the actions of slow or no movement at all.
4) Keeping the same theme, it is important to give off the same atmosphere and emotion through out the film and to do this is it simply keep to the same genre or instruments of emotion from a song an example would be to have hip hop music in rom com, scary music in a horror, feel good music for a comedy. so keeping the same theme and atmosphere is important so the viewers feel a certain way to a certain character or the same with the story understanding the all round vibe the story gives will relate to the music to represent.
5) Lastly experiment, it is important to try out different pieces of music and different versions of a certain piece of music because the elements may wrong and not fitting to the moment in the film, by this i mean you may have the perfect melody for sound of horror however the tension might be all wrong and need be building up in good time or perhaps the pace of the music is too fast for the actions in play, so experiments will allow to create music that near perfect in every element so the viewer is fully immersed and keeping to the atmosphere created by the music.
Batman the Dark Knight
Hanz Zimmer and Christopher Nolan worked together from an early stage of the making of the film even before post production due to Chris wanting Hanz to create a piece of music that relate to the joker well and Chris inspired him to do this by showing him images and short parts of films to create the piece and they worked closely through out.
Hanz went through out a process to find instruments or play certain instruments in ways to create tension and get the feel he wanted an example would be when he used razor blades on piano strings and played the violin in a certain way of being very slow and in a non-stop back and forth motion. he experimented a lot with these theories of sound.
Hanz wanted to create a piece that provoked the viewer and made them truly hate the piece and the joker out of terror. he didn't want people to feel for the joker at any point or see his view and he did this with the song due it not relating back to viewers.
3 Qualities Hanz wanted to create were fear and hatred for the piece and the character it represented (the Joker) he did this to have the viewers not feeling for the music and in fact hating it through fear of the joker and it provoking them to not wanting to see his side or feel what he feels so the music does a good job of making sure we do not.
another quality Hanz looked to create was tension he aimed to create a massive amount of tension through out the whole sonf in massive mounts to keep the viewers on their seat and always wondering when the Joker would be striking again.
Lastly Hanz tried to get the music to the most minimal point where even if you heard a short snippet of about 2 seconds you would relate do what that meant and that the joker was lurking around somewhere and the tension of appearance could be brought up with in a seconds notice.
My View
Overall i find the piece to be extremely effective in all the aims it set out to achieve, because the music that is the joker's theme is very much his theme and it relates to him well and gives of the same hatred and terror as the character and me as a viewer i associate the song with him however i do not relate him the song like it's intended to be.
Because most music is meant to reflect the character we are watching and cheering on so the music will relate to their emotions and how they are thinking so we can feel those feelings in music form to know they are doing and feeling however the joker and his theme do the opposite of that which is goof because simply he is insane, and a villain so we are not meant to relate to him and understand the tune of mind we simply meant to understand the terror and madness he brings and Hanz Zimmer has done excellent job to do this
so getting the right instrument for the right moment is important so the atmosphere isn't broken by a saxophone in a funeral scene for example.
3) getting the right beat and flow, it is important to get the right pace for a film or a scene because other wise it will out of time and sound and look bad together to create a unsettling and terrible sequence.
you want to keep a good pace with the actions in place at the time an example would be to have a battle scene with faster music than normal and flowing beat of battle to keep pace of fighting and opposite to that is having a calm scene so the beat would very slow and calm and keeping to the actions of slow or no movement at all.
4) Keeping the same theme, it is important to give off the same atmosphere and emotion through out the film and to do this is it simply keep to the same genre or instruments of emotion from a song an example would be to have hip hop music in rom com, scary music in a horror, feel good music for a comedy. so keeping the same theme and atmosphere is important so the viewers feel a certain way to a certain character or the same with the story understanding the all round vibe the story gives will relate to the music to represent.
5) Lastly experiment, it is important to try out different pieces of music and different versions of a certain piece of music because the elements may wrong and not fitting to the moment in the film, by this i mean you may have the perfect melody for sound of horror however the tension might be all wrong and need be building up in good time or perhaps the pace of the music is too fast for the actions in play, so experiments will allow to create music that near perfect in every element so the viewer is fully immersed and keeping to the atmosphere created by the music.
Batman the Dark Knight
Hanz Zimmer and Christopher Nolan worked together from an early stage of the making of the film even before post production due to Chris wanting Hanz to create a piece of music that relate to the joker well and Chris inspired him to do this by showing him images and short parts of films to create the piece and they worked closely through out.
Hanz went through out a process to find instruments or play certain instruments in ways to create tension and get the feel he wanted an example would be when he used razor blades on piano strings and played the violin in a certain way of being very slow and in a non-stop back and forth motion. he experimented a lot with these theories of sound.
Hanz wanted to create a piece that provoked the viewer and made them truly hate the piece and the joker out of terror. he didn't want people to feel for the joker at any point or see his view and he did this with the song due it not relating back to viewers.
3 Qualities Hanz wanted to create were fear and hatred for the piece and the character it represented (the Joker) he did this to have the viewers not feeling for the music and in fact hating it through fear of the joker and it provoking them to not wanting to see his side or feel what he feels so the music does a good job of making sure we do not.
another quality Hanz looked to create was tension he aimed to create a massive amount of tension through out the whole sonf in massive mounts to keep the viewers on their seat and always wondering when the Joker would be striking again.
Lastly Hanz tried to get the music to the most minimal point where even if you heard a short snippet of about 2 seconds you would relate do what that meant and that the joker was lurking around somewhere and the tension of appearance could be brought up with in a seconds notice.
My View
Overall i find the piece to be extremely effective in all the aims it set out to achieve, because the music that is the joker's theme is very much his theme and it relates to him well and gives of the same hatred and terror as the character and me as a viewer i associate the song with him however i do not relate him the song like it's intended to be.
Because most music is meant to reflect the character we are watching and cheering on so the music will relate to their emotions and how they are thinking so we can feel those feelings in music form to know they are doing and feeling however the joker and his theme do the opposite of that which is goof because simply he is insane, and a villain so we are not meant to relate to him and understand the tune of mind we simply meant to understand the terror and madness he brings and Hanz Zimmer has done excellent job to do this
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