Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Working with a DAW 1
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Working with a DAW 1
Overview
“To conclude this unit, we'll give you just enough information to understand the important parts of a DAW, and what you'll need to get the job done. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Working with a DAW 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
“ Working with a DAW In this lesson, we'll dive into Logic Pro and our film scoring setup. We'll get familiar with this piece of software. The windows and the different tools we'll use, the menus, the preferences, and the perfect setup for you to get started in film scoring. First, we'll start by looking at our equipment, what we have on our table in our desk setup, and then we'll dive into the software. We're running the setup in a Mac Studio. It's one of the new ones, the M1 Ultra Mac Studio. You can run your setup on whatever computer you have at your disposal. We're also running an inte...”
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Course summary for: Music Theory and Scoring for Film
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Audio, Music, Music Production
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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