Music Theory and Scoring for Film
What It Means to Score Picture 1
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
About the video: What It Means to Score Picture 1
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll learn the fundamentals of approaching a scene and preparing to write for it. With a little taste of the history of scoring and some things to keep an eye out for, you'll be ready to critically look at a scene with music. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: What It Means to Score Picture 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Music Theory and Scoring for Film. Learn how to score a film collaboratively, using your music to convey a feeling and tell the story..
Partial transcription of the video
“Hi, in this lesson we're going to talk about what it means to score a picture. We're going to go through different concepts. Like history. theory and a little bit of analysis. So before we dive into this topic, We're going to talk about the final project. And the goals that we have for you. The final project consists uh, scoring a two minute scene that we're gonna provide you and you're going to score it in the way you want. and we're going to show you the different steps that you can use to get to the final part of the process. The first step that we're going to teach is called a pre-produ...”
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Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim
Juan Dussán is a New York-based film composer. Since he was a young child learning the piano, he knew he was destined for a career in the arts. He graduated with a Master’s in Composition studies at New York University and has since worked on over 30 films as a composer, including Francesca Scorcese’s Crimson Ties, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and Wells Watson Jr’s short film Wendigo.
Alex Wakim is a New-York based composer. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, from films to video games. He scored the Sony game Horison Forbidden West alongside Oleksa Lozowchuk. His music for the documentary film Glen Eden has been screened at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. It has been heard through the festival circuit at Raindance Film Festival, Doc NYC, Vail Film Festival, the Arab Film Fest, Tallgrass Film Festival, and more.
Juan and Alex co-founded an advertising music storytelling house called Dekatu Scoring. They have worked on commercials for Air Company, Hourglass Cosmetics, and ILIA Beauty.
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