Film Music Composition

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• understand, interpret and execute a professional brief
• manage a project
• analyse a narrative
• use a computer running Mac OS

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• synchronise music to image (planning and executing 'sync points')
• produce film scores (realising musical ideas as sound)
• work in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to compose film music
• use notational strategies for scoring film music

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the requirements of a film score
• music production techniques for scoring films
• industry-standard processes for making and scoring films
• compositional techniques for scoring films

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify creative and technical problems that arise in meeting the requirements of a film score
• research and implement solutions to problems that arise in meeting the requirements of a film score

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.