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Advanced Film Scoring with Helen Noir

Dive into “Advanced Film Scoring with Helen Noir,” a 6-week live online course in partnership with Music Hackspace. Enhance your music skills, master film scoring techniques, and understand the business behind pitching. Ideal for aspiring film composers and music producers. Limited spots!

Level

Beginner

Duration

Self-paced

Format

Self-paced video

Course overview

Advanced Film Scoring is a 6-week course of 12 live online classes, taught by film composer and lecturer Helen Noir in partnership with Music Hackspace. The course provides an advanced look into the professional skills, techniques and business sales best practice on Film and Media Scoring and Pitching.

Students of this course will have several opportunities to create short pieces of music for moving image and get a chance to play them back for professional advice.

The course will consist of:
● 2 x 2hr live online classes / week
● All classes recorded for student use (during the course only)
● Interactive group challenges and playback sessions
● Special guest speakers
● Music Hackspace Graduate Certificate of Excellence
● 50% discount on your first year subscription to Music Hackspace

Course content

Intro to the Course

2 lessons

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  • Working on a film/tv project from pitching to dub mixing
  • Looking at orchestrating and working with VSTs in more detail

Looking at Genres

5 lessons

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  • Documentary, trailer, action, epic, dramedy
  • How to write in styles
  • Specialising in genres
  • Writing for library
  • Assignment: students to review 2 - 3 short scenes from different genres (to be provided) and prepare brief analyses for review

Pitching

3 lessons

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  • How to write a brief
  • Working with Directors
  • Networking

Spotting

2 lessons

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  • What this is, how to do it, working with the creative team and looking at setting up a film in ProTools
  • Assignment: students to be given short scene to score (doesn’t have to be in PT)

Review Session

1 lesson

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  • Peer review of students’ music from (2)

Orchestration for Film/TV

2 lessons

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  • Analysis of an orchestral cue, how a media orchestral session works and differences between media and ‘classical’ orchestrating
  • Guest speaker from Dorico tbc

Orchestral Mixing for Film/TV

1 lesson

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  • Analysis of a cue from a programming and mixing perspective

Guest Speaker

3 lessons

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  • Spitfire Audio sample Library creation and use
  • Student music playback and advise session
  • Q&A

Review Session

1 lesson

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  • Peer review of students’ music from (4)

Analysis

1 lesson

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  • Looking at some recent examples of great film/tv scoring, and relating these to students’ work

What happens after you submit your music cues?

2 lessons

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  • Formats, sound design, dub mixing, ADR, working with music supervisors and mixing in surround
  • Doing this yourself vs. working with a team

Special Guest

3 lessons

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  • Special guest talk with a professional film practitioner colleague of Helen’s to discuss real world project from pitching, spotting, writing and mixing to dub mix, as well as their career and experience in general
  • Student music playback and advise session
  • Q&A

Instructors

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