MFN/FGS LEARNING GOALS

• Compose in a variety of styles and moods as appropriate for the given media and context.
• Gain experience working within the client and collaborative partnership models in the scoring industry.
• Gain experience in related and auxiliary fields.
• Deliver polished audio files using real or virtual instruments according to the required specifications of a client.

Expanded Goals

What do you need to know in order to score a film?

1. How to write music!

• Can you write a tune?
• Do you have an understanding of how harmony supports and enhances a melody, and can you re-imagine it in multiple ways?
• Can you arrange and present your ideas clearly? Can you arrange them over time to create a coherent and narrative structure to your music?
• Are you aware of the various instruments? How they sound, how they play, and what roles they often are given?
• Can you listen to music and identify characteristics that define various styles and genres?
• Can you create contemporary sounds by working with textures?

2. How to Produce Music in a DAW

Can you realize and deliver your musical ideas in a DAW?

• Working with virtual instruments and synths
• Tempo maps and working to the grid
• MIDI editing - notes, velocities, CCs