Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Cleaning Up for Orchestration 1
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Cleaning Up for Orchestration 1
Overview
“Once you get your cue approved, it's time to prepare for orchestration. Making sure you clean up your DAW session in a particular way will ensure you have a really smooth transition into the notation program. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Cleaning Up for Orchestration 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
“ Cleaning Up for Orchestration Now that we have the cue approved, it's time to enhance it. The director liked the idea of having a cellist involved. In this lesson, we'll show you how to start this process of getting the music ready for a cellist and a recording session. The first step of the process is to take these composer deliverables that we talked about in a previous lesson and clean them up and prepare them to export into the notation software. Since the director liked adding this human element to the second half of the cue with the cellist, we were able to encourage him to give us ...”
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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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