Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live
Effects and Final Sync 1
A course by Jonah Schwartz , Musician and Composer
About the video: Effects and Final Sync 1
Overview
“You will explore adding effects to your individual tracks in order to flesh out different characteristics of your music. You will formally sync the piece to the film and discuss problems and brief solutions for syncing audio to video. ”
In this video lesson Jonah Schwartz addresses the topic: Effects and Final Sync 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live. Learn how to create an original score by exploring the process of recording, editing, and syncing your music to a film.
Partial transcription of the video
“Effects and Final Sync In this lesson, we'll add a few audio effects to our piece to give it a different sound. Then, we’ll sync our music to the film. I'll start by looking at the way that the instruments enter and exit this piece, what we call fades. What I want to avoid for the most part are sudden dramatic entrances and exits. Now there are ways to make them sound more dramatic, but I don't want to hear the instruments cutting out or jumping in suddenly unless that's planned for. There are moments that that will be good to cause a certain effect. Due to the flowing nature of the film I'...”
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Course summary for: Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live
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Music, Music Production
Jonah Schwartz
A course by Jonah Schwartz
Jonah Schwartz is an American musician and composer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught himself how to play the guitar, mandolin, and banjo when he was a teenager, and after studying film studies in university, he discovered his passion for film scoring. In 2004, he moved to Argentina and soon became part of the music community in Buenos Aires. The following year, his band was named “Best New Band” by Rolling Stone Argentina.
With his band Los Alamos, Jonah toured through Latin America and Europe, sharing a stage with names like Lee Perry, Calexico, Devendra Banhart and The Evens. After the split of his band in 2009, he started working in film scoring, and has worked on numerous productions, from films to commercials. Jonah wrote the musical score for the Hollywood film Hide (2008), Noche sin fortuna (2011), and others. He has also worked with well-known Argentinian production companies such as Tronco, Bamba, Can Can, and Plently.
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