Film Music Journal Notes...

Telling the story...with color and depth:
-style of the music in line with time/setting of the film (unless dramatic problem that supercedes time)
-Practice analyzing/writing in different styles - folk, jazz, 12 tone, classical, pop, gospel... (use different composers in each style)
---try writing 16-20 bar themes of melody/accompaniment in different styles based on a particular composer

Maintaining unity: (within score and in each cue)
- know where you are going (beg. mid. end)
-due the longest cue first/ start at the end
-prepare audience for what is to come
-theme and variations: expansion, developmental techniques, contraction, change times signature, maintain harmonic unity.

Study keyboard harmony/orchestration/counterpoint