Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Different Roles 1
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
About the video: Different Roles 1
Overview
“Let's explore the different roles involved in creating a film score. In larger films, separate people assume each of these roles. For smaller projects, the composer typically does most of them.”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Different Roles 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
“So in this lesson, we'll explore some of the different roles that there are in creating a film score. So on a bigger project like a big studio film, Typically you're going to have a different person for each of these roles. But on smaller films, the composer will typically be doing a lot of these roles. But it's a bit easier to show all of these different roles and all these different steps by talking about the situation when you have a big film with a really big music team. So that's how we're going to explore it. And the really exciting thing about film music is that it's extremely collab...”
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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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