Shoot and Score: How to write music for your own video

[@PoorlySoup]

Always helpful to remember that you rarely nail it on the first go. Work work work, break for a walk, work work work. It never helps to get down on yourself if you don't smash it out of the park the first time you sit down. Great video!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

So true.... Sometimes you nail it first go but the secret is knowing when you haven't quite nailed it

[@loretti1039]

Your humor sense is fantastic! keep doing your videos! Awesome!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

I'm glad you enjoy it! Thanks again Daniel :)

[@mbaudio2574]

It's not always easy to put in words what one is trying to acheive when composing music, but you do it quite well. Thanks for this video, it's very useful!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Thank you Zen!

[@matthewashton9472]

I literally have footage from NZ that I'm putting together for fun and i wanted to try writing my own music to it... and then i found this video!!! exactly what I needed! thanks heaps!

[@sk8rdad]

This is great advise for aspiring composers. I do this in reverse though. I record first and go out and shoot the video later (weird i know). Always record what you play even if you think it's crap. The only other suggestion I would make for someone starting out is to re-score something already scored. That's how I got my start. I wish I had a drone! I used a still photo of a girl sitting in a chair with a cover over her head and I did a slow pan in using my video software with a score I composed and the director I showed it to liked it

[@guym1428]

not weird there is a lot of fluidity now with film makers doing the same

[@tellisb]

This is one of the most insightful tutorials I've ever seen. I was struggling to put my thoughts into words, and here you are answering all my questions intuitively and on the fly before I knew how to ask them!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Haha that's amazing, thank you Tellis!

[@scotthamilton7161]

I love how you share your thinking process. It makes the lessons so much bigger. This was a great project suggestion that anyone could take on if they want to. My only criticism (and I'm kidding) is that sometimes you make it look easier than it really is... but maybe after I have my 10,000+ hours in it will come easier for me as well. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into these videos.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Thank you Scott! Keep working towards completely those 10,000 hours! It's a fun and very rewarding journey!

[@karl.weaver]

Thank you for the access to the video, not many KZbinrs give free stuff, so much appreciated.

[@jmac2050]

Cubase has a retrospective recording feature, make sure it's while your experimenting, it's always recording in a buffer loop. But, since you recorded your process on video, you can also go back in get the audio from your video or see your chords from your keyboard shots.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Good tip Jmac!

[@amomasi9909]

I was shocked to find FL Studio has the same feature too. Comes in handy on rare dire occasions.

[@flabber92]

Probably my favourite tutorial of all time! Very ispirational and practical ;)

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Thank you Flabber, this means a lot!

[@EricTViking]

When you see a beautiful bit of footage like this, with a really nice and fitting score, filmed and finished by a couple of people in a morning. It makes you wonder why people like the BBC blow so much money paying huge teams of people to do the same in ten times the amount of time. Let's face it, most punters wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Well done Guy.

[@AndreasvanHaren]

Great movie, gave me a Cape Fear feeling. Nice to see that you don't need to be sure about everything at the beginning and that there isn't anything wrong with letting some tears during the proces! :)

[@robbiesloan3992]

i think that was fantastic Guy! beautiful music from the start. thank you for all this, its very helpful

[@himbhardwaj]

This is fabulous Guy! Always wanted something like this from scratch and thats exactly you gave us! Thank you 🙏

[@ashvitaramesh9034]

Very inspiring. You are a phenomenal teacher.

[@MichelBarbaro]

So inspiring as always! Thank you!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Thanks Michel!

[@theRyanStrong]

Love this! Thank you for doing this video, I remember specifically asking for something like this!!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Cheers ryan!

[@pablostruff425]

It's unbelievable that your videos don't have millions of views! Such great stuff :)

[@c2running]

Hi Guy Love what you are doing. And 👍 you are spot on with your encouragement 🤗 Thanks Peace 🐝

[@winstondsouza42]

Watching you videos for a while now.. N believe me as much as it is about the music.. I love your witt.. & the reactions are so relatable.. Keep doing these videos

[@TheKnightimeProject]

Guy - fantastic video matey - absolutely loved it! Methinks I'll take my drone and camera to my beach in Worthing and see what I come up with ;)!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Go for it! It feels a bit like growing and cooking your own food. Very satisfying.

[@TheKnightimeProject]

Haha - love that analogy :D

[@GprokYB]

don't be so hard on you Guy!!! awesome video, thanks for sharing!!!!!

[@davidcundy]

I always find starting is the hardest part. Once I get a motif in my head, I'm usually good to go. Your advice on just sitting down and playing virtually whatever comes into your head is good, because you start throwing out the rubbish and keeping the themes that have potential. Love watching your videos. If I had AU$41,801.92 I'd do your MFA in Media Composition and Orchestration, but student loans are not available for courses outside of Australia, so I'm going to have to save up, which means getting some work writing music for someone.

[@scottrossgirvan8009]

Brilliant. I am saving up for a TS course. Brilliant.

[@a_9021-k]

Thank you again, and again! really inspirational and informative.

[@badnewschris8002]

I really enjoy the accent of this gentleman

[@catinaloranz7943]

Dude your videos are superb!!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Thank you Cat Media!

[@pjdahmen]

I like your teaching and well done

[@DarshanSenTheComposer]

That's a wonderful score!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Thank you Darshan!

Absolute class. Mesmerizing!

[@braunhausmedia]

Would love to see you score an episode of Rocket and Groot.

[@guym1428]

R&G is a lot of fun but I wouldnt like to piss off my employers - you may notice I don't stuck Marvel stuff up on my KZbin channel!

[@elephantfeeet]

Hey Guy. Do you havea video specifically on tempo mapping on Cubase?? I've used DP before and i feel like Cubase isn't as flawless when mapping tempo to picture like DP. Thanks!

[@guym1428]

ah...the longer you write to picture the less you tempo map///there's another video in that isnt there?

[@Boosty_Boost]

"thats alright" @8:53 are you kidding me? when the strings came in it was awesome. it became a whole new dimension, didn't like the second string chord. but everything else right here just sounded wow-balls! :'D

[@andrewholcroft.1945]

I asked the other day if I could see your working practices. And bosh. There it is . Didn't see this on you tube till today! (Hastings or Selsey or somewhere in between?)

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

aha... Bracklesham Bay

[@Gusrikh1]

Great video clip. Inspiring..

[@adammeredith2117]

Ha - you are amazing!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Haha thank you Adam!

[@theRyanStrong]

In Cubase how are you able to record a MIDI track, not like it, go back and record over it without deleting the track? Usually it plays back the previous performance.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

replace mode - works great :)

[@johnmoss4367]

What was the sonivox string patch you used please Guy?

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

espressivo sonivoxmi.com/products/details/orchestral-companion-strings#features

[@danquay9504]

I found this video very helpful and very relaxing as I love film scores and certainly helps me get motivated and watching this in bed, thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@99MUZIK]

Good day. I need your honest opinion as money doesn’t matter. I’m looking into buying and building my library as a beginner film score composer. I’m curious of Vienna and east west and spitfire Audio. What is your favorite sample library? My laptop specs are skylake 4.0 quad core i7 with 64GB ram and 4 ssd.

[@guym1428]

Spitfire is in my opinion the best. I love 8dio stuff as well but if you were starting from scratch somewhere, get Spitfire.

[@imdidi5695]

Lovely 💜

[@yellowmanmusicstudio2657]

In sort of that, if you cannot record video - you can use free stocks with videos, there are terabytes of footage ready to download ;)

[@aliclaviste763]

Great inspiration

[@emilemerten6535]

Dear Sir Do have any advice of how I can get my music that I wrote for animated films to the right people? Best regards Emile

[@quasima2nez]

It would take me a week to get close to what you did here!!

[@richardbagley5096]

Hi Guy, thanks for this, inspirational as ever. Any chance of sharing the film and we can all have a go. Family bag of Maltesers for the winner .... :-)

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Absolutely! Good idea

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

You can now download the video from here: s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/course-downloads/Blog_Video_Archive/Blog+Downloads/Beach+Blog+2018/Beach+Aerial+30fps.zip Have fun and let us know what you come up with!

[@MrSargBagles]

Hi Guy, I'm Andrew, Richard's son, I've been working on composing some music to the video footage you made available and would love to hear your thoughts on it. It's on my channel which can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3zQYX9orq2efbc

[@actonblue2012]

Thanks Guy. Is that Pagham?

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

It is very nearly! East Wittering / Bracklesham

[@andreasmoll_0924]

Hey, that would be a great idea. If you are the king of england and see those beaches, you should be able to let carry away all those stones on the beach and replace it with a very nice lovely sandy beach, where kids could play......and the shining sun is a reason to cheer up the chords

[@yathirajuppoor9612]

really. good .thanks alot

[@bernie8835]

Crying out for some cowbell this track.

[@PendelSteven]

Today in a Dutch quiz I was confused about the term 'mol'. That's Dutch for flat. Or written: b. I got a feeling that is because of B flat, the first flat before C. And instead of written b for the black note up left to the B, we now write Bb. But that's history of written music notes and I might be wrong. Turns out I'm not. Why? Something something Guido of Arezzo. The Dutch for sharp, is the term 'kruis' (cross), since written: #. Same Guido, but somehow I can relate sharp and # better, thus cross --> kruis better.

[@PendelSteven]

Furthermore, in Dutch C# = Cis, Eb = Es, F# = Fis, G# = Gis and Bb = Bes. Three sharps and two flats. And I some don't agree that D# is not always Eb or in fact a different note, but I think in Dutch we only care about the frequency and somehow we went with C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, Bb & B. C, Cis, D, Es, E, F, Fis, G, Gis, A & Bes. Twelve notes. Not sixteen. And I like that about our language. No needless confusion.

[@codigobinario101]

Hello, i'm a whistler and compuser. If you need to record one whisteled for a piece of music i do free for you!¡! Thanks so much for your videos!¡!

[@Michael_H_Nielsen]

last one is beutiful :)

[@d.1565]

Hey Guy, could elaborate a bit why you switched from DP to Cubase? If you made a video about it, please point me in the right direction. Cheers!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

You're not the only one to bring this up - we'll definitely consider covering it in a video d corso!

[@frankwales]

For next time you wish you'd been recording when playing something in, try Cubase's retrospective recording feature, which will let you capture MIDI input even when you forgot to press record. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2iumoFsirSboaM

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

that's a good idea -I will try that tomorrow!

[@guym1428]

Wow there's a great feature I missed. Shame there's no feature to retrospectively know all the features you find out about too late!

[@frankwales]

Happy to teach you something for a change :-) Hope it saves you in the future.

[@guym1428]

Ha! Thank you

[@braunhausmedia]

Call me crazy, but I kinda preferred the earlier, purely Sonivox version of the strings...

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Yes but doesn't it sound a bit less interesting? I don't know. I write this stuff imagining how the live players would sound and sound could layer a small string section on that and it would sound really good I do like the sonivox strings though, old and technically very simple as they are

[@braunhausmedia]

Well, on second listen I see your point. The final version is quite beautiful.

[@arvidpeterson]

two words: retrospective record

[@charliezhong1712]

14:16 Guy.exe has stopped working

[@timmusic7674]

I thought oboe would nice in there somewhere

[@deltavistastudio124]

That was my first instinct as well, but I liked his thought of something more edgy as well (maybe not a hurdy-gurdy though.)

[@PendelSteven]

The beach he says sitting on rocks. But okay, near where I live there's also mostly rocks. Oh, I forget. Cue The Clash: I live by a river! Full disclosure: I live by an estuarium. A river flowing into the sea. Not quite either, but both. So yeah, I live by a river... And I live by the sea. But that's not why I watch this vid in 2022. Anyhow, a good enough story to put in a single comment even after all these years, innit? :)

[@MartinJG100]

Guy, you missed the opportunity for a subtle tongue in cheek 'Jaws' parody lurking just beneath your signature theme. Shame...

[@PendelSteven]

Well, it's quite a basic piano + strings piece. I'm not that kind of musicmaker, but I get why people go to that. Somehow peace & quiet is associated with piano and strings. Surely there are more instruments and sounds that make us think of that. Flutes come to mind. I would probably use that. But well, as a reply to that 80's tune: I don't like Chopin. At all. I don't mind piano, but solely piano - yuck - and adding just strings... Not quite my cup of tea either.

[@王振宇-s9o]

so cute

[@storyfirstfilms5983]

fantastic!! thank u "idiot", no lurv ya

[@handlewithoutsuitcase]

Guy, I ain't a native eng speaker, so help me please understand the meaning of word 'tune' you do use regularly. I really struggling to catch it, the only tune I know is tunning my guitar or brass players playing out OF TUNE ALL THE DAMN TIME! Sry, tnx!

[@EricTViking]

By "Tune" he means melody. So if someone said whistle a tune, they mean whistle a melody. Your English is fine 👍

[@webstercat]

The world is a snow globe..

[@webstercat]

Every composition need not be magnificent….