How I Wrote a Short Thriller Film Score in 3 HOURS

Here's how I scored the soundtrack for a short film in just 3 hours.

"Leak" was part of the London 48 Hour Film Project 2020, and was nominated for 7 awards (including Best Soundtrack), winning 3 of those nominations.

I hope you find some of these tips useful on how I approached composing the music for this short film! Let me know in the comments if you found this useful.

[andikasavana]

this guy is hidden gem, i hope someday can see a movie in cinema composed by tom hawk, i believe you have a amazing taste and skill to become a great composer in the future.

[JamezDahlMusic]

Great video Tom! Love hearing your work! 🙌

[allynisbetmusic]

That’s brilliant!! Love this and fantastic work, sir

[Grantborland]

Wonderful score, Tom! 
simple, but serves the picture very well - thanks for sharing some insight into your process :D

[ZachHeyde]

Great stuff, Tom! 100% agree with you on the importance of an organized template--great insights, and lovely composition!

[michaelironstone]

You are amazing man!!! Can't wait to see more music!!!

[anH]

Instantly subscribed, great job mate!

[danielthehuman]

This is fantastic! I'm currently scoring my own short and this makes me feel better, its amazing how much you can do with just on a computer!

[dededindra]

This is absolutely amazing Bro! Thanks for sharing!

[faru-music]

Always good to see how professional work gets done. Thanks for sharing 👍

[geniicube]

WOW great score and the shirt is pretty cool too. Great project

[shakti.rathore]

I have scored short films and I know how tough it is to score for a motion film within such tough deadline. It's your modesty that you say not much music is going on.. Because minimalism takes more precision and creativity. Hoping to learn a lot from you. Thanks.

[jetlag_beats]

You're totally right about learning a lot when working on a strict time schedule / deadline. If I compose a full song (with lyrics), arrange it, record it and mix it so that there's a professional and to any public audible result, that usually takes around 3 to 5 days of work if I add up all the hours.
Last week i said: fuck that, I'm a pro... I should be capable of delivering it within 24 hours from first scratch to pro recording result.

Which I did. And it was the time pressure that did the job, unleashed the craftsmanship in an excellent workflow, resulting in every single thing needed in that song being done within 24 hours after start. It's hard... but amazing to work that way 🙂

[JeyakanthanNitharsan]

thank you lots for this video. please make full length videos for us. I haven't money to go to film school to become film director so I decide become a indie filmmaker. I'm learning from free YT videos, books and internet.

[MartinHeidenreichMusic]

Great video as always! Thanks for sharing, really useful

[cnfmps]

Quality work bro! Gonna dust off my Korg and have some fun 😅

[Brothrz]

String Library at 12:08?
Also are we able to download the non-scored video to score it ourselves?

[alirezanikkhah]

Good job, what libraries did you used?

[Rosomyat]

Great.. My Question: Is it necessary to make scoring on every single scene?. Or should we keep some scenes free from any music?. How to decide on that?. Thanks for the great work 😊

[vikalpsharma]

The Music is beautiful.. wow especially the ending, it builds up to exactly where it should be. If you could share what kontakt plugins you used that would be great.