Music Theory and Scoring for Film
What It Means to Score Picture 2
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: What It Means to Score Picture 2
Overview
“In the second part of this lesson, you will continue to learn about the building blocks of film music, before moving on to the analysis of a scene. What elements do you need to pay attention to produce suitable music? We will focus on four things: the story, the characters, the subtext and the production. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: What It Means to Score Picture 2, 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
“ What It Means to Score a Picture VOCABULARY For this course, we'll use specific words and vocabulary that have specific definitions. I'd like to welcome you to learn these with me right now. CUE What is a cue? A cue is a piece of music that is part of a score. In a feature-length movie, you can find maybe 30 or 40 different musical cues. Each of those is probably three, four, or seven minutes long. In this image, on the right side of the screen, you can see a score of a cue that I worked on a few years ago. The title might surprise you. It's just numbers and letters. It has a structure. I...”
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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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