Modern Music Composition for Film

This is a four week course. Each week there will be a practical exercise in which you will be given all the information and guidelines necessary to compose a short music cue to picture which will be submitted for grading. Alongside the practical aspect, a comprehensive online reference resource will be provided. You will be asked to concentrate on relevant aspects of this information bank each week as applicable to the week’s practical exercise. You will then be required to complete an interactive quiz covering the week’s learning which will also be graded.

Instructional resources will be distributed in the form of video presentations of advanced techniques, screen capture ‘”how to” videos supplemented with voiceovers/pieces to camera, .pdf documents of reference material, external links and recommended further reading. Additionally, each week there will be a main video of maximum 10 minutes duration where David will discuss the current week’s syllabus highlighting the key points with you.Finally we will emphasize to you that the production values which you use in your practical submissions (the quality of recording and arrangement) are of far less importance in this course than your appreciation and interpretation of the topics discussed. In other words the music which you submit does not need to be glossy, meticulously arranged or intricately recorded but needs to show that you have grasped and examined the theoretical principles.