Comparing musical choices versus technical choices
When you begin scoring, the technical choices you make, such as using beat mapping, tempo operations, or time signature, will likely dominate over the musical choices, such as the tempo, rhythm, moods, style, genre, instruments, and orchestration, most of the time. However, it’s important to understand that the technical choices will not necessarily be the final result.
The technical choices serve as a guide to evaluate the extent to which everything that Logic Pro provides supports or doesn’t support the film cuts. In film music, the goal of the musical choices is to support the story as well as the entire film. There can be many reasonable technical choices made, but in the end, they may not accommodate the final scoring process or the type of music that is needed. Therefore, the technical choices might need to be edited or changed to better serve the picture.
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