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  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits: 2 credits Prerequisites: FS-441 and FS-375. Course Chair: D. Carlin Required of: None Electable by: FILM majors Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Description This course will address the prevalent and recurrent need in films to emulate a wide variety of stylistic scoring approaches appropriate to the period setting and/or specific ethnic locale of a screenplay. Approaches to research and adaptation of authentic musical styles will be discussed. (Such styles include, for example, seventeenth-century European, African, American in the 1920s, etc.) Careful attention to instrumentation, arranging, orchestration, and dramatic theme development will be stressed. Assignments representing realistic situations will be recorded synchronously to the specific needs of film scenes.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits:2 credits Prerequisites:CM-311, FS-340, and FS-341; FS-375 must be taken concurrently with FS-441. Course Chair:D. Carlin Required of:FILM majors Electable by:FILM majors Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description This course will provide opportunities for scoring scenes with a wide range of dramatic and technical requirements. A combination of material from FS-341 combined with advanced techniques from the course (scoring to picture, special and variable clicks, segue/overlays/sweeteners), will be employed in the scoring assignments. All recorded projects will be conducted by the composers and screened for faculty evaluation. These assignments will also form the basis of a portfolio which will be compiled and submitted in FS-487 as partial requirements for graduation.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits: 2 credits Prerequisites: FS-361 and FS-241. Course Chair: D. Carlin Required of: None Electable by: FILM majors Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Description An examination of advanced Film Scoring functions available in various software applications: MacIntosh applications include Digital Performer, Logic Pro, Kontakt, and Reason. The use of multi computer workstation setups: Macintosh for sequencing, PC for sample or software synthesis playback, using Kontakt or GigaStudio for various sample libraries, as well as V-STack as a host for VST instruments. Scoring projects include a cartoon, TV commercial, and videogame footage.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits:2 credits Prerequisites:CM-311, FS-340, and FS-341. Course Chair:D. Carlin Required of:None Electable by:FILM majors Offered:Spring, Fall Description This course focuses on the new musical and technological techniques and aesthetics of contemporary film composing. The use of synthesizers and sound design, computers and advanced sequencing techniques, rock, pop, and other nontraditional music in the film scoring process, and the contemporary aesthetics of modern filmmakers and audiences will be investigated.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits: 2 credits Prerequisites: FS-361 and FS-375 Course Chair: D. Carlin Required of: None Electable by: FILM majors Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Description An advanced music editing course dealing with standard film and television industry procedures. Intended for the student who demonstrates technical fluidity with editing equipment and who intends to pursue a career in this field. Emphasis is on the responsibilities of a music editor for the "scored" film, from temp tracks and spotting through dubbing. Instruction will include digital editing techniques on a multitrack digital audio workstation, as well as the necessary preparations for delivering music to the dubbing stage in various surround sound formats.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Credits: 1 credit Prerequisites: FS-475 Course Chair: D. Carlin Required of: None Electable by: FILM majors Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Description A course emphasizing extensive project work in music editing for film and video utilizing analog and digital technology. The course involves advanced use of Auricle software, further application of building and editing music tracks on 35mm magnetic film, and digital editing on a computer workstation. Each student will produce a demo reel illustrating the audio editing of previously composed material.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits: 2 credits Prerequisites: FS-441 and FS-375 Course Chair: D. Carlin Required of: FILM majors Electable by: FILM majors Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Description This course guides the student in the preparation and assembly of a portfolio. This collection will consist of representative material chosen from the student's output to date. Under instructor supervision and guidance, new projects will also be scored for the purpose of completing and/or enhancing the portfolio. Career planning, relevant business aspects, and the film and television industry's expectations of the film composer/music editor will be discussed.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits:2 credits Prerequisites:FS-375, FS-441, and either FS-461 or FS-468. Course Chair:D. Carlin Required of:None; but may fulfill FILM Directed Study concentrate requirement in place of FS-487 Electable by:FILM majors Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description An advanced projects course for video scoring with emphasis on using the technology of computer and synthesis hardware and software to realize original music. Students may elect this course as their final requirement (as an alternative to taking FS-487) if they plan to pursue a career scoring music in a project studio environment. Course content emphasizes skills necessary to score industrial/corporate films and documentaries.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits:2 credits Prerequisites:Sixth-semester standing and written approval of the course chair. May not be elected in a student's final semester of enrollment at the college. Course Chair:D. Carlin Required of:None Electable by:FILM majors Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description Monitored and evaluated professional work experience in an environment related to the film scoring major. Placement is limited to situations available from or approved by the Office of Experiential Learning and the Film Scoring Department chair or designee. To apply for an internship, students must see the internship coordinator in the Office of Experiential Learning prior to registering. Note: Equivalent credit for prior experience is not available due to the requirement of concurrent contract between the employer/supervisor and the college. International students in F-1 status must obtain authorization on their Form I-20 from the Counseling and Advising Center prior to beginning an internship.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Credits:2 credits Prerequisites:None Course Chair:J. Mulholland Required of:All Electable by:All Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description Basic harmonic theory. Note identification, scale and mode construction, key signatures, interval recognition, chord construction, available tensions. Principles of diatonic chord progressions and analysis.
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