Create FEAR with STRING INSTRUMENTS! Writing music to a HORROR CUE
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2023
- In this episode of Virtual Orchestration, Berklee’s Assistant professor Jungmin Lee gives us an insight into her work on the Korean horror film "The Closet" (copyright by CJ ENM).
She explains in detail orchestration choices, finding the right pace and rhythm for the scene, and how to build tension. Moreover, she takes a deep dive into how to use the string section of the orchestra to create eerie sound effects, and how to layer these sounds for maximum scary impact!
A big thank you goes out to CJ ENM, production company of "The closet" which gave us permission to show and use the scene from the closet in this video.
Also a big thanks to the other production companies involved "Moonlight Film" and "Perfect Storm Film Inc." as well as the Music Director of "The Closet" Jo Yeong-wook.
More info on CJ ENM : www.cj.net/
More info on "The closet" : www.imdb.com/title/tt11727052/
Virtual Orchestration is a collaboration between Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) and Orchestral Tools (Berlin, Germany).
Video creation credits:
Video idea and Script 📜 : Jungmin Lee
Script Consultation 🔍 and Director 📣 : Eduard Flemmer
Camera 🎥 and Editing ✂️ : Fabián Barba Hallal
Lighting 💡 and 2nd Camera 🎥 : David Kudell
Motion graphics 🎨 : Michael Logar
Which libraries are you using ? For strings glissando , percussion etc
The change of irregular metrics to maintain the tension is excellent!
you make apporaching horror so simple, thank you!
Very insightful tutorial on horror music. Thank you!
Hey I know you :)
By the way since you're here, I wondered, what are the libraries that you used in your '70s cop show' album? Can't find some at this quality.
It’s nice to have those great samples to use
@Virtual Orchestration Fantastic video! Thank You very much. May i kindly ask which sample libraries were You used here? Especially for strings FX? ...By the way if its not very big problem would be really great if You could adding in description which sample libraries was used in future videos ;) Anyways.. Thank You, it was really great video.
Agreed
Could you explain more about the recording session and the orchestration? I think the hard part here is to put notes down to the score and make it perfect for the scene. Also, how did you communicate with the players at the session? Would love to know more! :)
excellent work, your score realy set the pace and emotion for the film. ive never done horror movies but would love to.
Thank you, that was super interesting to see how to score a horror scene like that! :)
Loved this---just what i needed. Thank you
I'm about to score my first one - a short - for fun/free . . . this was very helpful.
Hello, guys.
Thank you for a great introduction to the voiceover of The Horrors.
Good luck, everyone!
this was very informative, cant wait to try this on my own music!
Fantastic tutorial!!! Extremely useful!! Thanks so much!!!
Damn! This is amazing!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and process. :)
Great video, thank you for the information 👍 🎶
Thank you - great tutorial
Perfect for Halloween
Could you share the library you used! Just like the glissando strings, that sounds amazing!
"Virtual orchestration" is linked to "Orchestral tools" so I guess the String Lib is "Berlin String SFX" ...
0:14 Does anyone understand what samples she's using? It's NOT the "glissandi" of Berlin Strings, because you can't choose to have vibrato on them or not. THANK YOU!
May I use in other cases woodwinds and brass instruments for Horror music?
good stuff
Great presentation ! Avoiding brass is obviously a good choice here, since addition of brass would make the music sound out of proportion for relatively small setting where footage took place. The film director would immediately say : “music sounds too big !”. Right ? 😅 You could easily add woodwinds, like contrabassoon, bass clarinet etc. or even 4 alto flutes for eerie clusters (a la Jerry Goldsmith’s writing for episodes of 1960s TV series “Thriller”. A must-study for any suspense/horror writing !).
Nice sounding library, although there’s a catch : the samples are fixed, meaning that choices of particular notes, duration of upward risers or downward ones - everything is fixed “as is”. If it’s only for a demo to tell the film director : “it’s gonna sound even better with a live orchestra !” than the purpose of those fixed FX libraries is justified. As long as a young composer knows HOW to write it out on paper so it’s sounds alike to what you hear in those samples. Next problem is that developer doesn’t specify HOW those samples were recorded (in some kind of pdf manual with actual music notation of pre-recorded samples). Instead of giving some unspecified “Ligeti” name to the sample collection. Ughhh... If such library wants to also serve as a teaching tool for novice composers/orchestrators, the actual notation should be included. Otherwise if this is for a final product entirely done in DAW (low budget movie with no budget to hire any orchestra, even small) than the result is that somebody delivers an actual cue without knowledge “how it was made to begin with”. As long as it sounds right ! 😅
To my knowledge (as of July 2023) no developer invented yet a library where one can customize samples into portamentos. Starting note, synced to the session tempo, duration etc.(end note doesn’t need to be specific since majority of raisers are marked in the scores “up to the highest playable pitch” although it would be great to have that option if you compose riser ending on specific notes). That would be a dream ! Imagine if you can record any combination of notes (YOUR combination, not some “Ligeti” unspecified selection of pitches in the pre-recorded cluster) ! Lack of portamento function in the sample libraries (vs analog synths with oscillators, where it’s been a feature since the 1960s) is something that still needs to be figured out, engineered and developed😊
Nice tutorial
❤
"I'm going to show you how to score a horror scene"
Awesome
"...for a Korean Horror film"
OKAY AWESOME
Starting to sound more like an action cue towards the end
Awesome!!!.Can someone tell me the name of the daw she is using?🙏.Thanks!!!.
That's Logic Pro.
@@maxruehl Thank you so much @maxruehl!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏...i guess i'll give it a try someday!!!.Succes to you!!,and have a great Life!!!🙏☺️
show the freaking libraries
Nice!
Tip: when scoring horror scenes, always put yourself into the monster/villain's shoes, not the hero(ine), and tap into all the evil inside you
😈 You'll thank me later 👻
This is one of my first attempts at scoring. My biggest challenge was just getting used to the video element added to the workflow and timing the musical hits with the scene. I also use Logic so your video makes perfect sense to me. In the case of this scene from SAW, I felt the existing score seemed very stock, like the music was just chosen from a sync library and slapped into the soundtrack. So I attempted to rescore it here...ruclips.net/video/H28nlHeWDJo/видео.html
Wish we could hear the music at the same volume as your voice.
It's too quiet!
Great tut nonetheless.
Thanks!
Promo SM