Hey all,
I recently met someone at a wedding who has a silent film that needs scoring. It's a 15 minute film, very Charlie Chaplin in production/style/humor.
I'm basically looking for any information or guidance regarding scoring a film with REAPER.
I'm interested to hear people who do film scores with REAPER to chime in with any resources(links) or advice.
I've yet to touch REAPER's video features. I'm in the dark regarding that, where do I begin?
Also, any tips or workflows in general for scoring a film is appreciated.
Here's how I'd like to approach the scoring. (all subject to change depending on responses here)
I want to load the film into REAPER. Bust out my VSTi and start searching for the sounds I know I'll be using in the score. I figure I'd take a good 3-5 runs through the film while searching for sounds.
Once I have all the sounds/instruments I think I'll need to lay down the majority of the score, I'll start a few scratch takes with the main instrument that will most likely be present through the whole film. I'm thinking this instrument will be a violin or strings or something like that. So I'll take a couple runs and get ideas.
The film has distinct cuts and scenes so I'll definitely be marking the timeline to organize the different scenes/cuts that will require a different emotion/feeling. I'll also definitely need to work on each scene individually but regardless, I still do want to do a few start-to-end takes as I mentioned, just to get the feel of how the scenes tie together.
It seems like scoring a film is a very complex project. I have so many beginner questions.
Should I work with a tempo/snap/grid?
How do I determine the tempo for a particular scene?
Are there hard and fast rules in the order/workflow for scoring? Or are there a billion ways to get to the end, like with regular music that's not a score for a film?
Man.. I don't even know what other questions I should ask... so that'll be my last question.. what else should I be asking?