Bridgerton

This is my entry for the #MyBridgertonScore competition by Spitfire Audio.

This is the first time I have ever scored to a preexisiting video and has been quite an experience! There’s a lot I would do different next time, but at least I have done it…

I tried to keep it quite simple, keeping a Regency feel, but used a few different reverbs to try and give a bit of a different feel to the different physical spaces depicted – bed-chambers, stairwells, outside and so on.

In terms of (virtual) instruments, I scored this quite simply, using Spitfire’s Intimate Strings, Epic Brass and Woodwinds, and Orchestral Tools’ Majestic Horn (the best 2 Euros I have ever spent).

Choosing the sounds was the easy bit.

The first and biggest issue was that I really had no idea what I was after in terms of style. I very much like the music to flow with the scenes rather than existing underneath them (as I feel some of the more abstract and modern scoring seems to do) and I wanted something that while not quite a leintmotif style, was subtly changing as the trailer developed. I ended up playing about with arpeggios and chords until something fell into place for the long gallery scene, then adapted this throughout.

The most difficult part, and I will have to read up more on how this is approached was fitting musical passages to the timings of the video – my bpm ended up all over the pace, and I am sure there must be a better way to approach this.