Composing for Moving Pictures: The Essential Guide [Paperback]

Making quality moving pictures has never been easier or more affordable, and the proliferation and ease of access to digital recording devices has prompted scores of amateurs to record and post videos to YouTube and its ilk. Paradoxically, however, scoring and arranging music for motion pictures is, in many ways, more complicated now than ever before, requiring extensive knowledge of notation, arranging, recording, and mixing software and multi-component DAW workstations.

InComposing for Moving Pictures: The Essential Guide, author Jason Gaines offers practical tools with which to navigate the increasingly complex environment of movie music composition. He addresses both the principles of composition for moving pictures and the technologies which drive music composition, performance, and recording in an integrated and comprehensive fashion. The guide takes readers from square one - how technology can facilitate, rather than hinder, creativity in scoring - and then moves into the basics of working with MIDI files and on to more advanced concepts such as arranging and mixing. Gaines illustrates each step of the process with screen shots and explanations in the form of program tutorials.

Composing for Moving Picturesfills a hole in literature on film scoring in the digital age and will prove to be an invaluable resource for music educators at the university and secondary level. Amateur composers will also delight in this easy-to-use guidebook.

Acknowledgements

Part I
1. A Brief History of Film
2. The Digital Audio Workstation
3. Recording and Editing Audio
4. Recording and Editing MIDI
5. To Loop or Not to Loop - An Exploration of Loops, Beds and Foley
6. Working with Videos
7. Music Creation on Mobile Devices and an Introduction to Basic Mixing
8. Delivery, Collaboration and Archiving
9. Best Practices and Troubleshooting

Part II
10. Terence Blanchard
11. Marc Shaiman
12. Steve Hol�