Guerrilla Film Scoring
Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2015
Summary
As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies of one.
In Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers,Jeremy Borum provides valuable guidance on how to make a good film score both quickly and inexpensively. This handbook encompasses the entire film scoring process including education, preparation, writing and recording a score, editing, mixing and mastering, finding work, career development, and sample contracts. Offering strategic tools and techniques, this insider’s guide draws on the expertise from a number of prominent composers in movies, television, and video gaming, including Stewart Copeland, Bruce Broughton, and Jack Wall.
A straightforward do-it-yourself manual, this book will help composers at all levels create the best-sounding scores quickly and cost effectively—without jeopardizing their art. With access to rare and extremely useful input from the best in the business, Guerrilla Film Scoring will benefit not only students but also professionals looking to update their game.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2015
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4422-3729-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4422-3730-8
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 250
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- CONTENTS No access
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
- INTRODUCTION: THE NEW SCORING LANDSCAPE No access
- Chapter 01. EDUCATION No access
- Chapter 02. TEAM BUILDING No access
- Chapter 03. BEFORE YOU BEGIN No access
- Chapter 04. TIME MANAGEMENT No access
- Chapter 05. WRITING No access
- Chapter 06. DEMOS No access
- Chapter 07. SCORE PREPARATION No access
- Chapter 08. PREPARING FOR SESSIONS No access
- Chapter 09. THE STUDIO No access
- Chapter 10. PERFORMING No access
- Chapter 11. PRODUCING No access
- Chapter 12. MUSIC EDITING No access
- Chapter 13. MIXING AND MASTERING No access
- Chapter 14. FINDING WORK No access
- Chapter 15. CAREER DEVELOPMENT No access
- Chapter 16. MUSIC LIBRARIES No access
- Appendix A: SAMPLE CONTRACTS No access Pages 219 - 232
- Appendix B: COMPOSER BIOS No access Pages 233 - 244
- INDEX No access Pages 245 - 248
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR No access Pages 249 - 250





