Music Production for Films
Getting Set Up Technically
A course by Simon Smith , Musician and Composer
About the video: Getting Set Up Technically
Overview
“Once the spotting session is over, we can go and set up our DAW. I find it very important to be methodical and orderly at this stage. This is so that I don't get tied up with technical problems or make stupid mistakes later on, when under pressure. We need to give ourselves every opportunity to stay creative and technical headaches are definitely a creativity killer! If you dont own a copy of Protools, you can watch the videos to learn about how I would use it and simply skip this step when mixing later. ”
In this video lesson Simon Smith addresses the topic: Getting Set Up Technically, 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
“Getting Set Up Technically In this lesson, I want to cover getting set up technically before you start composing. Now that we've speak with the director, we've got the film, made some notes, had some impressions, my next step would be to make a more technical viewing where I go through and examine it in more detail, making notes, on the timeline. So it's the logical moment when we import it into Logic and start to set up markers and all these things. So I'm gonna set up Logic. I'm gonna show you setting up Pro Tools, which is where you'll end up exporting and delivering to. And I'll also sh...”
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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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