Hi. I need help. I'm doing a music test soon and the subject is to write a theme tune for your favourite movie. I've tried and tried and can't come up with a decent compostition. My film I chose was the "Moulin Rouge" A tragic love story. I wanted my tune to be slow and melodic and sad.

Does anyone have any advice, tips or a couple of bars of music they are willing to share to help me.

Thanks!

:lol:

The only advice I can give you is if you have been bothered thinking or looking for a tune just get away of it for a time and do something else. To force yourself or to be trying by a long time it can block your mind and end doing un-productive stuffs. If that is not the case then I don't know what else to say.

Write down all your ideas as sketches even if you think they are not so good there is always room for improve a melody or harmony and to make it sound much better. You can look also how to mix your ideas coherently without go away of the mood of the film.

Has anyone composed a sad feeling composition who are willing to share it. NOT to copy but to model off of and get ideas.

I am sorry no...

Here is what I do whenever I am stuck in writing a theme for a movie or such:
First, get a tape recorder or anything that can record sounds. Then watch the movie without sound or find a part that has no music and sing/hum/whistle whatever you feel from what you see into the tape recorder. Do this a few times trying to capture a different mood or aspect of the scene each time. Later, listen to your tape and use anything you like to make a larger theme.
It really helps if you don't know the music of the film by heart because then you run the risk of writing something that sounds remarkably similar.
I hope this helps!

Sad Music? Put it in B Minor AKA D major and change root Position E minor F# major B minor play around with chord processions.

That sounds like fun, we never get to do that kind of thing at my school :cry:

Sad Music? Put it in B Minor AKA D major and change root Position E minor F# major B minor play around with chord processions.

Devil May Cry 3? xD

Hi. I need help. I'm doing a music test soon and the subject is to write a theme tune for your favourite movie. I've tried and tried and can't come up with a decent compostition. My film I chose was the "Moulin Rouge" A tragic love story. I wanted my tune to be slow and melodic and sad.

Does anyone have any advice, tips or a couple of bars of music they are willing to share to help me.

Thanks!

:lol:

hmm y'know the movie Kill Bill? I rewatched it and (the first one) well you know when the ladt with one eye whistle that melody? i was listening to that part " 1,2, 3and 4, 1,2,3and,4 " Or E D EE D, D C DD C, EE DD EE D, D C DD C

SO YEAH.. i was listening to it and like.. i made up my own melody from hearing that. I changed it into my own.. well i don't have a record of the song i made up because.. i don't know how to record it from my piano to computer XP Just borrow a song you like and (get inspired) and make up your own from it... which isn't that hard, but playing it for real

image to real
now i find that difficult.