The Art Of Scoring Sci-Fi Movies

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Any film lover can recognize that a movie is much more than just dialogue and moving images. Movies have several essential layers that help the audience to feel present and immersed in the story, like graphics, cinematography, acting – the list goes on. One essential factor in all films (since practically the beginning of films) is the music that accompanies the tale and mood of the movie. This point is especially true in the case of particular genres that require a lot of detail to build the world they’re set in, like Westerns, or horror, or science fiction.

That said, genres like westerns and horror films have an easier time creating the appropriate score because they exist in past, modern, or near-future timelines. This means that creators can be more sure of their music choices because they have an idea of what to base it on. In science fiction, however, the score is usually being written to reflect a world that is set in the distant future, which adds a layer of difficulty to the task.

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Based on how much the sound of music has evolved just over the past 50 years, we can assume there’s no sure way to know what the music of the future will sound like. Nonetheless, successfully creating music that sounds futuristic or otherworldly is essential to the believability of the world in science fiction. Naturally, sci-fi films made in different decades are generally somehow reflective of the music or technology of the time period they belong to, but it’s how they represent space or futuristic concepts with those resources that set them apart.

Consider iconic science fiction films that had effective scores, like the Star Wars films, Back to the