How to elevate your production with cinematic music

How to elevate your production and make a lasting impression

Whether you’re creating a film, television production, trailer, promo or advert, you’re probably already aware that cinematic music is vital for setting the mood, driving emotion and making that essential connection with your audience.

If you think of some of the most iconic films of all time, such as Spielberg’s Jaws, Disney’s The Lion King, or the Star Wars trilogy, it’s probable that the music comes to mind as readily as the visuals. In fact, an exceptional score will ensure that it’s almost impossible to separate the music from the visuals in the viewer’s mind.

Building a powerful and lasting connection with your audience – one that gets their blood pumping, tugs at their heartstrings, or sends a shiver down their spine – is essential for any great film or media production. With the right cinematic track, you can strengthen the message within your production, evoke powerful feelings, and create a truly unique and memorable experience.

The prohibitive cost makes licensing original cinematic compositions unaffordable to most independent filmmakers, and simply out of the question for low budget media projects. However, royalty free cinematic music can be just as authentic, compelling and dynamic, whilst also being far more affordable.

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What is cinematic music?

There are many theories as to what exactly defines cinematic music. Rather than being a genre of music, cinematic scores are a broad term used to describe epic, evocative music created for use in film and television. At its core, cinematic tracks are designed to create an emotional response in the listener. A film score can be used to make a scene more exciting, dramatic, tense, or scary, and sometimes just to provide a backdrop that compliments the on-screen action.

Cinematic movie scores vary greatly in style, but they typically feature grandiose orchestral arrangements and epic, sweeping melodies. This is because such music is designed to evoke feelings of scale, wonder, and excitement – perfect for those big, blockbuster moments. However, a range of music genres can provide the ‘aha!’ moments you’re looking to evoke. From serene orchestral melodies to aggressive driving rock tracks and atmospheric sci-fi style electronica, each piece cinematic track serves to lead your audience’s emotions.

Choosing the right music for the scene

Selecting the perfect piece of royalty free cinematic music for your production can be intimidating if you’re not a musician or composer. The reality is that it all comes down to one simple question: what do you want your audience to feel in the moment?

For a coming-of-age drama, you may want to use a positive and uplifting cinematic score at key moments of emotional climax, while a thriller will employ dark and suspenseful music to keep your audience on the edge of their seats. In short, the music you choose should always complement and support the on-screen action, without ever feeling out of place. To get a sense of how different musical styles can dramatically alter the mood, energy, emotion and wonder of a scene, watch some of the videos made by Scambler Music that only utilise royalty free music.

Once you know what emotions you want to drive, the job is halfway done, and you can move on to the fun part: finding the royalty free cinematic music that will augment your vision!

Tips for finding the ideal music

• Watch other productions in a similar style and genre and pay extra attention to the musical themes, instrumentals, mood and pacing.
• View your production without sound and allow the acting, editing, and settings to guide you towards your choice of music. In the words of composer and pianist Marcelo Zarvos “I watch and hear the music start in my head. But then I try to let my brain relax, and I start to feel something in my chest and stomach.” If this approach doesn’t work for you, try watching your production on mute while playing different genres and styles of music over the top – you’ll often find that a particular piece just clicks and perfectly complements the movement, energy and emotion of a scene.
• Ensure you have the rights to legally use the music in your production. It’s essential that you license music, and with traditional sync licensing agencies this can be complicated and expensive. However, obtaining a license for royalty free cinematic music from Scambler Music is as simple as previewing the music, opting for an album or collection of individual tracks, selecting your license (Standard or Premium) checking out and immediately downloading your chosen music files.

Why license royalty free music for productions?

The greatest benefit of licensing royalty free music on this site is that you won’t be beholden to paying ongoing royalties each and every time your production airs. Nor will you need to relicense the same music for other projects – simply purchase a track or album with a Standard license (essentially non-commercial usage) or Premium license (required for any commercial use) and you’re ready to employ it in any of your productions, in any territory, in perpetuity.

Whether you require a single track or an entire album for your production, the royalty free cinematic music available here provides a comprehensive range of rich textural backdrops, enchanting and uplifting underscores, and dramatic suspenseful tracks that can enhance and intensify any scene.

If you’re looking for more diverse genres then browse through the royalty free music downloads in the download store and you’ll find everything from electro-pop and old-school dance to rocktronica, rap and instrumental folk rock. You can preview each track and album and then add the one you want to your basket with the relevant license.

As soon as you’ve completed your payment the download link will be generated instantly, and you can get back to putting the finishing touches on your production.

Final thoughts

Using the power of cinematic music in film, videos, console games,  advertising or even a Tiktok or Coub video is a fantastic way to engage your audience on an emotional level. Utilising premium-quality royalty free cinematic music is also ideal if you want to ensure that your production moves your audience to react in the way you envisioned whilst also not blowing your budget.

With Scambler Music, licensing royalty free cinematic music is easy and straightforward, so you can get on with what you do best – creating remarkable content.