Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Composing from a Sound 2
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Composing from a Sound 2
Overview
“We will now show you how to muffle a sound slightly by using a filter to reduce the higher frequencies. You will also learn how to achieve the panning effect, and more!”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Composing from a Sound 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 Sound Now it's time to start adding effects to this sound to make it more original. The first thing I notice about this particular sound is that it's very bright. It has this high-end that is piercing. To fix this, I'll add a little filter. I like the plug-ins from the company Soundtoys. They have cool tools for sound design, and this is one of them. A filter, essentially what it does is that it restricts certain parts of the frequency spectrum of a sound. That means if you want a sound to sound a little muffled or not too bright, you'd minimize the higher frequencies of ...”
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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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