Music Production for Films
Let’s Talk about Music Itself 2
A course by Simon Smith , Musician and Composer
About the video: Let’s Talk about Music Itself 2
Overview
“We'll continue to see the structure and nature of film music a bit more in depth.”
In this video lesson Simon Smith addresses the topic: Let’s Talk about Music Itself 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Music Production for Films. Explore music as a tool for storytelling by conceptualizing, developing, and producing a score for the big screen.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's Talk About Music Itself Now we've talked about making a musical statement in a certain way. Now we can talk about where music can go. Film music, theatrical music as well, but especially film music is very different from other ways of using music because the structures that we traditionally associate with one style of music and other style of music come from the use that we give it. So is it for dancing to? Is it for contemplating in a theatre? Is it for listening on a radio between adverts? You know, we have all of these structural constructs built up around certain styles of music s...”
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Course summary for: Music Production for Films
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Category
Music & Audio -
Software
Logic Pro X -
Areas
Music, Music Production

Simon Smith
A course by Simon Smith
Simon Smith is a Barcelona-based musician and composer who specializes in music for film and television. As a child, he was always experimenting with playing different instruments and eventually went on to study music in London, where he found himself drawn towards composing and improvising. Simon went on to release music with a label in the city and play in bands at well-known festivals like Glastonbury before moving on to composing for the big screen.
He has worked in countries around the world including the USA, Germany, Mexico, the UK, and Spain, and his work can be heard both in cinemas as well as on platforms like Netflix and Amazon.
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