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In this course, you will :
- The spotting session is the first day on the job for a film composer, and it is critical to listen to your director. Danny explains how to plan out your score, determine length and budget, and deal with temporary music.
- To become a film composer, you must first learn about cinema and film scores. Danny discusses how various film scores throughout history have elevated the director's vision and influenced his own work.
- A theme or melody can be anything and everything; it can come quickly or take a long time. Danny teaches you how to create and identify themes and melodies for your film's score using examples from some of his most well-known scores.
- While you listen to Danny's score for A Simple Plan, he walks you through the process and explains his choices.
- Danny demonstrates how to use instrumentation to create tone, energy, and movement, as well as how to treat, prepare, and play your instruments.
- discusses the process of writing the score for The Nightmare Before Christmas and working with Tim Burton to create Jack Skellington's story.
- Studio and project organisation are essential for a successful career when you have a disorganised mind like Danny's. He discusses his studio organisation process, software selection, and the large board that keeps track of his output.
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Syllabus :
- Starting Your Score: The Spotting Session
- Storytelling Through Music
- Themes and Melodies
- Real Time Listening: A Simple Plan
- Instrumentation
- Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Workflow
- Creating Your Template
- Insecurity and Instincts
- Writing Feature Scores
- Changing Your Approach: Milk
- Chasing a Moving Edit
- The Devil's in the Detail
- Real Time Listening: The Unknown Known
- On Failure
- Working With Directors
- Crossing the Line
- Advice to New Composers
