Film Scoring, Part 1: Techniques for the Modern Composer

So let's add a staccato woodwind ensemble. Staccato is like short notes. That's going to be best. If we want something fast, let's put this down there. I'm going to leave it in this tremolo string. And this is something that you'll want to communicate with the director and make sure that you're getting the right feel. I'll tell you a story later about some music I wrote that had the wrong feel in it. And it made for a kind of hilarious progression. Will leave off the melody for now. That if we stop the melody, that gives us something we can bring back. Still in this scene, because this scene is long, you know what an ostinato is. If you've had any involvement in pop music or anything like that, you know it as a riff. It's a riff. So we have C minor here, and we have E flat major here, here. So now we're alternating between two chords. And those two chords fit in with the low notes that were happening before. Hey, everyone. Welcome to my film scoring class. This is a class that's been kind of in progress for a really long time. I had a lot of requests to do this kind of a class for a while. And I just didn't know how to do it perfectly where I was going to be really happy with it. But after a lot of research and looking around at what's on the Internet already and other people that are making classes, I decided to dive in and do it. Because I really wanted to make a class that was focused on composition techniques in film scoring and less about the technical side of things. You can find other classes, and I might even make one eventually on, like, how to set up your software, how to get sample libraries, all the technical ends of it. But what I really wanted to do is focus on this is how you write music to go along with film. Now, we will talk a little bit about the technical side of it, because we have to. But the majority of this class is about writing music for film, working with film, and developing a career as a film composer. I'm going to show you throughout this class a bunch of my projects that I've done. A bunch of cues I've written for different films, different film projects. I've worked on some television stuff, some other things. And during this class, we're gonna write our own film soundtrack. And I'm gonna show you how you can find films that need music in them that you can use right away to build as a portfolio. So I hope you decided to take this class with us. I had a ton of fun making it. It turned into this huge class, Bigger than any other class I've ever made. We cover tons of stuff. I'm really proud of it. I'm really excited about everything that's in this class, and I think it's the best class I've ever made. I know I say that every time I make one of these, but this one, for real, the best class I've ever made. I'm really excited. I hope you decide to jump in and take the class with me. So we'll see you on the inside, Sa.