Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Finalizing the Cue and Exporting
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
About the video: Finalizing the Cue and Exporting
Overview
“In this lesson, we will finalize our cue and give you an in-depth walkthrough of exporting to industry standards. We will also talk about stems and why they are so important in our job.”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Finalizing the Cue and Exporting , 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
“ Finalizing the Cue and Exporting Now you'll learn how to export your cue with professional industry standards. You'll also learn how to export stems, which is a very fundamental part of how we deliver a score. Let's go in. To deliver this, I recommend doing it in a couple of different ways. Different directors and production teams will ask for different deliverables, but these three are pretty standard for you. The first deliverable you want is a full mix of your cue and the production audio along with the video. The second thing to deliver is the audio only without any production audio. ...”
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Course summary for: Music Theory and Scoring for Film
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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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