Music Production for Films
Scene by Scene
A course by Simon Smith , Musician and Composer
About the video: Scene by Scene
Overview
“Now we can start the process of actually applying our ideas to the film. It seems like we took a long path to get here, but we’ve laid the groundwork and now it will pay off. Sometimes I feel like I am even switching hats here and thinking more like a music editor - I'm taking my musical concepts already created and I’m structuring and sculpting them around the form of a scene, to see what happens, letting the film guide me. ”
In this video lesson Simon Smith addresses the topic: Scene by Scene, 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
“So in this lesson, I'm now going to take The material that I've created in the theme suite. and start applying it against the film and try it in different scenes and see how it can be sculpted and molded and adjusted to fit the needs of that particular scene. take the material, make a musical statement, and then let the film inform what kind of structure it has. what kind of start and end the transitions. All this kind of stuff. One thing to look out for is where's there a pivot in the scene? place the music and we see what happens. So I've been working here on the film, developing up some ...”
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Course summary for: Music Production for Films
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Music & Audio -
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Logic Pro X -
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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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