Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Enhancing the Cue 1
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Enhancing the Cue 1
Overview
“Now it's time to orchestrate! You'll learn how to import MIDI into Dorico and create a beautiful and clean score for your musician. You'll also see how to navigate a live and remote recording session.”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Enhancing the Cue 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
“ Enhancing the Cue Now that you've exported your MIDI, in this lesson, you'll learn how to create beautiful sheet music by using that MIDI and importing it into Dorico. We'll also have a live remote recording session with a cellist so that you can see how to navigate those. While this lesson might be a bit technical, it's really important to make sure that the music that you present to a musician is extremely clear. It shows that you respect them and you respect yourself as well by making your musical intentions clear and making it easy for them to play the music. While I'll be using Doric...”
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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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