Forum Overview :: Orbitor 1 :: That's orchestrators but it is a valid point

[quote name="Fullofkittens"]I once studied with a dude who was a very busy orchestrator, working on decent-sized movies, and his default technique for figuring out how to orchestrate anything was to bust out his Dover score of <i>The Planets</i> and see if there was anything similar in there, and if not check the score for Ravel's orchestration of <i>Pictures at an Exhibition</i>. Basically all of his orchestrations were based on those two suites. Film scores have mostly migrated away from that kind of richly-textured stuff in favor of Zimmer-esque "dunting synth low end plus cello ostinatos at all times with occasional brass roaring noises" scores of the type that Junkie XL turns in. Which is probably why that guy I studied with has mostly done TV movies lately. :([/quote]