HOW TO SCORE FILMS

WITH GUY MICHELMORE

$99

Online course. Lifetime access.

A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE INCLUDING FILMS TO DOWNLOAD AND SCORE

Learn everything you need to know to get up-and-running with film scoring using Cubase or Logic. In 7 hours of fun videos, Emmy-nominated composer Guy Michelmore walks you through each stage of the process from the first contact with your director, importing movies, writing to picture, right through to delivering the final music. Watch Guy score a movie cue then try it for yourself, with a selection of films ready for you to download and score.

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FROM MEETING THE DIRECTOR TO DELIVERING YOUR SCORE

Learn the basics behind importing and setting up videos inside your DAW (Logic or Cubase). You will be given lots of inside information on client management and how to communicate effectively and efficiently with the people behind the brief. Learn with lots of over-the-shoulder scoring demos, showing you how to spot different films and genres, and the best approach to starting the project and telling a story with your score.

Work with video files inside your DAW (Logic or Cubase)
Practice using hitpoints and markers.
Practice scoring in different genres.
Over-the-shoulder scoring demonstrations and tutorials.
How to deliver your music to the client

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

1. SET UP & TERMINOLOGY

How to set up your project and get video into your DAW. You will also learn some technical jargon relating to files and formats.

2. UNDERSTANDING THE WHOLE FILM PROJECT

People management is an important skill to get to grips with when scoring films, and interpreting the brief and the client’s wants and needs is also a key part of the process.

3. SCORING TECHNIQUES

Spotting the film before you start is very important. Learn about tempo maps and different ways to approach the scoring part of the process.

4. TELLING STORIES WITH MUSIC

Explore how to breathe life into the director’s vision for their film with multiple over-the-shoulder scoring demos in both Logic and Cubase.

5. DELIVERING YOUR MUSIC

How to get your music from your DAW into the hands of the client, and what you are expected to deliver to them.

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Telling Stories With Music

Guy demonstrates how you can drastically change the emotional context of a scene with your music. We score a short scene in two different ways and you'll see just how powerful your music can be when communicating to the audience how they should feel about the characters on screen.

short films to download and score

It's hard to find music-free film clips that include dialog and foley, but that’s what you need to practice real-world scoring. This course includes four, spanning different genres. Plus there are accompanying tutorials that show some different approaches you could take for two of the films, and some key moments to look out for.

ACTION

"The Commuter" features Hollywood star Dev Patel and legendary actor Charles Dance.

DRAMA

"Voices Inside" is a psychological drama with flashbacks and plenty of emotion.

SUSPENSE

"Lady In The Loft" is a tense, claustrophonic film with some big events to build up to.

ANIMATION

"Frankenwinklestein" is an action-packed kids cartoon with high production values.

YOUR EXPERT INSTRUCTORS

GUY MICHELMORE

Guy Michelmore is a multi award-winning film, games and television composer whose clients include Marvel, Disney, Dreamworks, Lionsgate and dozens of major TV networks around the world. He is best known for his work with Marvel on eight animated feature films including Ultimate Avengers and Thor, as well as hundreds of episodes of television including Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Iron Man: Armoured Adventures, Hulk and many more. His unique and accessible style has made him a popular YouTuber with over 300,000 subscribers.

BRADLEY JORDAN

Joining Guy is his composing assistant, Bradley Jordan. Bradley is a film, television and game music composer and music editor based in Chichester UK. He has been writing diverse and professional scores for a wide range of applications for 6 years, working alongside award winning composer Guy Michelmore. Through his work for Guy, Bradley has worked for companies such as Marvel, Dreamworks, DQ Entertainment, and many more. Most recently working on Robozuna, an animated Children’s TV show for ITV and Netflix.

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Includes downloadable films to score yourself.

Over 7 hours of video tutorials in both Logic and Cubase

Comprehensive course text

Taught by an Emmy-nominated media composer

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you are thinking about taking the course, there are some requirements you may want to consider. Here are the most frequently asked student questions to help you to assess whether the courses is right for you.

You do not need to be able to read music to take the course, but you will need a reasonable understanding of how instruments interact with each other within the orchestra.

The latest Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) capable of importing video files. We would recommend:

Cubase 10 or above
Logic Pro X
Pro Tools
Digital Performer 9 or above
Reaper
FL Studio 12 or above
Ableton Live.

Sample libraries are a must-have for the course. There are countless libraries to choose from, many of them capable of high-quality demos.

Here are some sample library suppliers that we recommend but there are many more:

East West Composer Cloud
Vienna Symphonic Library Special Edition
Spitfire Audio
8Dio
Heavyocity
Native Instruments

Here is a possible selection that we recommend but there are many more:

East West Quantum Leap – Symphonic Orchestra Gold
VSL Special Edition
8Dio – Adagietto
Heavyocity – Damage
Soundiron – Emotional Piano

You will need a machine capable of handling sampled instruments and video simultaneously. We recommend at least a quad-core computer with 16GBs of RAM. The techniques are still transferable to any modern machine. As long as your processor is up to scratch, your only limit to how many instruments you can load is how much RAM you have installed.

We also recommend a MIDI keyboard, as well as monitoring headphones or speakers.

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