Learn how to write, orchestrate, and produce cues for TV, films, and other media, and start building a professional portfolio.
Eerie violins, rolling timpani, ethereal tones, epic fanfares, haunting melodies... the music in films and TV shows plays a massive role in how we experience those stories, heightening our emotions and deepening the impact.
In this expansive course, we're going to walk you through everything you need to know to start scoring to picture, from how to compose your first demo to how to navigate the industry. This course features interviews with some amazing film scorers working in Hollywood and in independent film and media today, including Amanda Jones (Black Lady Sketch Show), Sherri Chung (Riverdale, Kung Fu), Gary Yershon (Mr. Turner, Peterloo), Ian Hultquist and Drum & Lace (Dickinson), and Andrew Orkin (Save Yourselves!, The Next Thing You Eat).
Plus, you'll learn to analyze groundbreaking music cues from dozens of films, like Arrival, Dunkirk, Chernobyl, Psycho, and more. And you'll get first-hand experience honing your compositional chops by writing leitmotifs to character descriptions, creating a musical "lookbook" for some fictional film projects, and writing full cues, using reference tracks and cue sheets, to scenes from real films and video projects that you can include in your own demo reel.
By the end of this course, you'll have the knowledge, wherewithal, and skills to start building your own portfolio, as well as clear next steps for how to go out and tackle your first job in the industry. Are you ready to get writing?
When we create a course in-house, we draw on the expertise of our team as well as pulling in a variety of experts and professional musicians to help illustrate and illuminate the topics you're interested in learning.
If you've ever wanted to score a film, TV show, ad, or video, but didn't know where to start, this is the course for you. Learn from a variety of professionals from across the industry about how you can support storytelling with music and give audiences an experience they'll never forget.
Get started with the basics of scoring for picture, from the history and the processes to the music and the methods.
This course is for anyone interested in scoring for film, TV, or other media.
As an intro course, this course will be particularly useful for people just starting out in composing, anyone looking for more experience with scoring projects, and musicians interested in transitioning into scoring, who want to understand the field in more detail.
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By the end of the course, you will have started building your own portfolio and a have plan for how to enter the industry.
This course does not have pre-reqs, but there is a whole section on working in the DAW (production software) and we will talk about music theory a little bit — both of which are fairly important skills for scorers today. If you're new to working in the DAW, consider our course on making music in Logic Pro X.
This course was developed by a number of different people on the Soundfly Team and professionals who contributed lessons, insights, and assets. It includes interviews with professional scorers working on major shows and films today, including Amanda Jones, Sherri Chung, Gary Yershon, Andrew Orkin, Ian Hultquist, and Drum & Lace (Sofia Hultquist).
This course was designed for you to take entirely at your own pace. If you want to watch and read all the content from start to finish, you could probably finish it in a couple hours; taking a more active approach and utilizing the various exercises and challenge prompts, you could probably spend a month or two working through it.
You're also welcome to just skip around to the lessons and sections most relevant to you and your music.
You can start the course anytime. If you'd like more accountability and guided feedback from a professional, you can request to work through the course and reach your own musical goals with a Soundfly Mentor for four or six weeks.
Learn more about custom mentorship here.
This course includes 59 lessons, including videos, graphics, text, activities, demos, creative prompts, downloadable tracks, stems, and much more.
Our mission is to support musicians, not to rip anyone off. If you realize after subscribing that it's not what you wanted, email us as soon as you can with your reason for cancelling. Our policy is to issue refunds within two weeks of a purchase, for either a monthly or annual subscription, if the courses didn't meet your expectations.
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As a subscriber, you'll get unlimited access to all courses on Soundfly.com, including this and all our other premium courses, to go through at your own pace. This includes all the videos, tutorials, demos, quizzes, activities, downloads, and other materials within our full suite of courses.
You're also entitled to a 25% discount on our custom mentorship program, you will be invited to join our exclusive community Discord group, you'll be able join subscriber-only Study Groups, artist Q&As and workshops, annual contests and giveaways, and you'll have access to a growing list of exclusive discount perks courtesy of our partner brands. Cancel anytime.
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Yes, absolutely. If you would like to go through the course with support, accountability, feedback, and guidance from an expert, you can request a mentor by filling out this form. A Soundfly team member will reach out within 48 hours to learn more about your goals, your music, and your skill level, and pair you with a mentor who can help you achieve your next musical milestone. Our mentorship program is based on a science-backed learning model designed to help you learn more efficiently and effectively. Your mentor will tailor the course to your experience and interests, offer detailed weekly feedback on your work, answer any questions you have, help you blow past obstacles, and keep you on track to accomplish your goals.
You can find out more about mentorship and our expert mentors here.
