Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Preparing to Write 2
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Preparing to Write 2
Overview
“You should now be ready to start finding sounds to write with. We will show you how to respond to the director's notes and create something that suits the tone of the film.”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Preparing to Write 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
“ Preparing to Write Now you have your markers where you want to start and end music as well as adding the notes from the director into the notepad in Logic. Now we're ready to start finding sounds to write with. Since the director is wanting more of this synth with a bit of a string palette, I'll start with finding some strings to get us that human feel. If you remember how to add a track, you can push this plus button and then add a Software Instrument track. I'll make three of them, so we can save a bit of time. By pushing I, you get this left panel, which is useful in quickly finding in...”
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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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