Film noir soundtrack planning

March 1st 2021

I've been doing research about the soundtrack used on film noir. I came up with lots of stuff that I plan on using. From what I've leant, this type of soundtracks use lots of half diminished 7 chords, Maj7 chords and dominant 5th chords in minor keys. Also, they use strangely chosen bass notes to create a feeling of uncertainty. I'm planning on using the Dorian mode to write this soundtrack, this mode creates a dark atmosphere and it is also not as gloomy and sad as other modes. (In case you don't know what musical modes are, I'll leave a link for you to understand). The most common instruments that are used on this type of movies are often saxophones, pianos and upright basses. In this case I only have a piano, so I'll try to use plugins in order to change the sound of it into a saxophone. The music used in film noir is heavily inspired on dark jazz, I'll continue looking stuff about it to create this soundtrack.

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/guide-to-musical-modes/#:~:text=The%20seven%20main%20categories%20of,minor%2C%20and%20some%20are%20ambiguous.

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