Music Production for Films
What You Need before Starting
A course by user3316641 surname3316641 , Musician and Composer
Joined June 2020
Explore music as a tool for storytelling by conceptualizing, developing, and producing a score for the big screen
Joined June 2020
About the video: What You Need before Starting
Overview
“In this lesson I’m going to go over the basics of the equipment you’ll need, and the kind of things I use while I'm working. It’s really not that much. We can get very distracted by ideas of lots of kit, when directors don't really care - they might feel in safer hands if you have a fancy studio, but in the end it’s all about your ideas and your ability to understand what the story needs. I know many film composers who work from home.”
In this video lesson user3316641 surname3316641 addresses the topic: What You Need before Starting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Music Production for Films. Explore music as a tool for storytelling by conceptualizing, developing, and producing a score for the big screen.
Partial transcription of the video
“What You Need Before Starting In this lesson, I'd like to go over the basics of what we need to get going. You don't need a lot, a decent computer and a DAW, a digital audio workstation. I work off a laptop, many other composers do the same. Everybody works with a digital audio workstation these days, so Logic, Pro Tools, Cubase, Ableton. I work in Logic since it came out, but any programme which can create broadcast quality exported WAVs and can work with the imported image and time code, if you can work with those two the rest is how you wanna work. The computer needs to have a decent sou...”
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Course summary for: Music Production for Films
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Category
Music & Audio -
Software
Logic Pro X -
Areas
Music, Music Production
A course by user3316641 surname3316641
Simon Smith is a Barcelona-based musician and composer who specializes in music for film and television. As a child, he was always experimenting with playing different instruments and eventually went on to study music in London, where he found himself drawn towards composing and improvising. Simon went on to release music with a label in the city and play in bands at well-known festivals like Glastonbury before moving on to composing for the big screen.
He has worked in countries around the world including the USA, Germany, Mexico, the UK, and Spain, and his work can be heard both in cinemas as well as on platforms like Netflix and Amazon.
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