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07 Sep 2020, 7:14 am

perhaps the lowest register of the tenor saxophone might be suitable.



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07 Sep 2020, 7:45 am

I don't know anyone here personally so I don't know who you are.

Identify yourself if you have a degree in music theory and composition from a credited music conservatory?

If not! Then you are not qualified to give advice on orchestration on a serious film score.

Orchestration is a very complex thing and not for the advice of amateur's.


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07 Sep 2020, 8:03 am

fluffysaurus wrote:
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I hope this doesn't sound rude in anyway if anything it's sort of a compliment.

Let me get this straight,your that good of a composer that you have been commissioned for a film score.

You are then asking advice on a non music composition specific website on instrumentation.

I would go to a music composition website or composer subreddit at the very least.

I would email the person you studied composition with an ask them.

If you were commissioned for a film score you would have to have studied at a conservatory.Otherwise no film maker would give you the time of day.
I would call your old professor and talk with him.

No one on WP would know orchestration better than you.If you have doubts,email a professional.

I write music myself but I won't give you advice because I don't do film scores so I'm not qualified for this question.

I think the op is asking not for music advice but for 'avoiding a social mistake' advice.

I think a sax is fine; they are associated with many things not just old porn and have been used in many films. However auntblabby's point is interesting something darker and more soulful might be even better. Nothing wrong with the sax though.
If they don't have a theory degree from a conservatory,they shouldn't be giving orchestration advice on a film score.Film scores are a very advanced thing,this is not a light matter.


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07 Sep 2020, 8:06 am

Well, we dont really know the scope of this film project. Could be on a relatively small scale?


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07 Sep 2020, 11:12 am

Oh are you asking if it's low budget?



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07 Sep 2020, 11:44 am

I guess? My point was mostly that there are ways for someone to be in charge of a movie score without necessarily being a clasically trained composer.


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07 Sep 2020, 11:59 am

Oh okay, yes I am not classically trained for sure, and would be using purchased recorded samples of the instruments. Yeah it would be a microbudget movie.



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07 Sep 2020, 12:31 pm

ironpony wrote:
Oh okay, yes I am not classically trained for sure, and would be using purchased recorded samples of the instruments. Yeah it would be a microbudget movie.
I guess you can ignore me then.


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07 Sep 2020, 10:41 pm

Saxophones are used in sexy sultry music. And had a seductive association long before Seventies porn.

In movies saxes are also associated with Forties' film noir. Those detective dramas - Bogart, dames, etc. Dark sounding, but also sexy. Like the song "Harlem Nocturne" ( youve heard the song. It used whenever anyone does a spoof of Bogart movies).

But saxes are used in music that is not particularly seductive as well. Like early postwar R+B and later in early Rocknroll.



But saxes rarely sound menacing. For that the easiest thing is strings. A bunch of players using their bows to chop away on the necks of their cellos doing something like the theme from "Jaws"... dunt-dunt-dunt-dunt-dunt-... .



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08 Sep 2020, 6:13 am

Oh okay thanks. That is why I was thinking of using a sax for the film noir feel of it. However, since this story deals with a series of rape and sexual assault crimes, I am wondering if that will clash with the sax, if that makes sense.