ONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & WORKSHOP — 2008
Workshops are FREE and open to the public! • Call: 928.282.1177


Film Scoring for Film Makers
—— Saturday • March 1, 2008 • Bella Terra Pavilion ——


"Film Scoring for Film Makers" is a FREE workshop designed especially
for producers, directors and editors (and the public) — rather than
musicians. Instruction includes decoding the basic film music vocabulary
and film composer jargon, and a detailed examination of the four basic
types of film scoring: Scoring the Action, Scoring the Cuts, Underscoring
the Mood, and Underscoring Against the Action.


The instructor Brent Michael Davids is one of America's most celebrated
American Indian composers, whose career spans over thirty years with
features on ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, PBS and NAPT.


FOUR BASIC TYPES OF FILM SCORING


Scoring the Action — Composing music that reflects the on-screen action.
Scoring the Cuts — Composing music that shifts with the film’s edits.
Underscoring the Mood — Composing the emotional subtext of a scene.
Underscoring Against the Action — Composing contrary to the film action.


The workshop covers the four basic types of film scoring by screening both
good and poor examples of film clips, for a comparison-contrast type of
examination. This method provides a comprehensive overview that
producers, directors and editors can truly benefit from, by seeing actual
music scoring examples, back-to-back with commentary provided for each.


Near the end of the workshop, a “spotting session” is conducted with the
workshop participants themselves by screening a film clip with the music
removed; then together, the participants take a detailed look at the clip
for scoring purposes.


It is the intention of the workshop, that participants will learn the basics
of spotting a film for music, and learn how to identify the musical shifts
and changes within a film scene to accommodate the on-screen subject
matter.


FESTIVAL LINK:
http://www.sedonafilmfestival.com/show.php?x=27&y=39


INSTRUCTOR LINK:


http://www.filmcomposer.us/filmscoring.html
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Georgia Wettlin Larsen