Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Composing from a Chord 2
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Composing from a Chord 2
Overview
“Let's home in on the second half of the composition. You will see how to adopt an evaluative approach to refine the piece and achieve an emotional climax. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Composing from a Chord 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
“ Composing from a Chord I've deleted that line that wasn't working out too well, which is something that happens all the time and it's actually an exciting part of writing, is that most of the time there will be things that you write that end up not working and you keep working and keep discovering and you discover those moments that work. I feel like the first half of what I recorded works wonderfully. I'll now refine the second half a bit more to get that emotional climax. Then, I'll work on the first half of the cue to build into it. I'll delete everything maybe after this moment. When ...”
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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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