UCLA EXTENSION PROGRAM COARSE COURSE SYLLABUS
Coarse Title: Film Scoring IV: A Workshop in Composing and Conducting to
Picture
Course #: X 498.2
Credit Units: 4
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: ALAN ELLIOTT
Meeting Times: WEDNESDAYS, 7-10
Dates: JANUARY 10, 2007- MARCH 28, 2007 (12 MEETINGS)
Place: PRIVATE ISLAND TRAX STUDIOS
Prerequisite: FILM SCORING 3 (OR CONSENT OF INSTRUCTOR)
Recommended Reading:
Periodicals:
- Score (the Society of Composer and Lyricists’ newsletter)
Books:
- Sounds and Scores, Henry Mancini
- The Technic of the Baton, Albert Stoessel
- Mademoiselle: Conversations With Nadia Boulanger, Bruno
Monsaingeon
Online:
- www.alssoundtrack.blogspot.com
- Rimsky-Korsakov “Principals of Orchestration”:
http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77
Listening:
- The Carl Stalling Project: Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons,
1936-1958
- Johnny Mandell: Point Blank soundtrack
- Henry Mancini: Touch of Evil soundtrack; Breakfast at Tiffany's
soundtrack
- Elmer Bernstein: Airplane! soundtrack
- Nino Rota: La Dolce Vita soundtrack
Required Equipment:
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Email; Voicemail
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Computer Sequencing workstation with digital video and audio
playback capability e.g. Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Live!
Music notation software such as Sibelius or Finale
Baton for conducting
COURSE SCHEDULE:
CLASS SESSION # 1: January 10, 2007
- Prefatory Matters: Enrollment list, Classroon Policies,
Introduction
- Who are you? Whattaya got? Why are you here?
- Lecture: The State of the Industry: an Overview of the Career
Today (why are you here? Todd Homme’s article)
CLASS SESSION # 2: January 17, 2007
- Lecture: Aesthetic Approaches to Film Music
- Recording Session Requirements and Protocol, Part 1
CLASS SESSION # 3: January 24, 2007
- Scoring Assignment #1 distributed and discussed
- Scoring Assignment #1 instrumentation chosen
- Guest: Suzie Katayama
CLASS SESSION # 4: January 31, 2007
- Scoring Assignment #1 Pre-record tracks due (optional)
- Scoring Assignment #1 Cue conferences (sketch review)
CLASS SESSION # 5: February 7, 2007
- Recording Session #1
CLASS SESSION # 6: February 14, 2007
- Scoring Assignment #1 playback and critique
- Scoring Assignment #2 distributed and discussed
- Scoring Assignment #2 instrumentation chosen
CLASS SESSION # 7: February 21, 2007
- Lecture: Collaboration and Promotion
- Scoring Assignment #2 Cue Conferences
CLASS SESSION # 8: February 28, 2007
- Lecture: Business and Promotional Details
- Guest: Robert Kraft
CLASS SESSION # 9: March 7, 2007
- Recording Session #2
CLASS SESSION # 10: March 14, 2007
- Scoring Assignment #2 playback and critique
- Scoring Assignment #3 distributed and discussed
- Scoring Assignment #3 instrumentation chosen
CLASS SESSION # 11: March 21, 2007
- Recording Session #3
CLASS SESSION # 12: March 28, 2007
- Scoring Assignment #3 playback and critique
- Wrap-up and class evaluations