Temporary soundtracks - put an already existing soundtrack into the movie timeline as a template and work on that
Don't copy the temp. soundtrack however, start deconstructing and only take small bits as inspiration
How you are going to approach the music?

Themes and motifs
Evolve them into different moods, so establish a theme first
Associate certain soundtracks with characters - antagonists would have a dark sinister theme, protagonists would have a happy theme etc

Track volume - add points in the track to adjust volume
-Useful for strings, realism
-Adjusting volumes for each instrument can greatly enhance your music

Keywords
Velocity - how hard you hit the key (softness/hardness of the notes)
Minor keys - more happy -D♭, E♭, A♭
Major keys - more sad -D, E, A
Perfect fourth (P4) - F
Augmented fourth (aus4th)-F#
4/4 - 4 quarter notes per bar
Wholetone notes - magical realism

Scales
Major - C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C
Minor - C,D,E♭,F,G,A♭,B♭
Pentatonic - C,D,E,G,A
Blues - C,E♭,F,G♭,G,B♭

Pentatonic scales - all the black keys

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