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Scoring to Picture in Logic Pro

By : Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Book Image

Scoring to Picture in Logic Pro

5 (1)
By: Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Overview of this book

This book will help you leverage the Logic Pro digital audio workstation (DAW) for scoring to picture. With the help of expert insights from a Hollywood film composer, you'll understand how the film music industry works and be ready to meet the demands of film directors or producers, exploring common scenarios and the process of post-production and final film score delivery. Packed with all the technical and practical skills needed when scoring to picture in Logic Pro, along with insights into real film scoring tasks, this book will prepare you for success in the industry. You’ll start by getting acquainted with film scoring terminology and then advance to working with QuickTime video and its components, getting an overview of how to set up and sync a movie file in Logic Pro. You’ll see the different methods of creating tempo maps, find a suitable tempo for a film scene using hit points and scene markers, and work with time signature and beat mapping functions. You’ll also work with a pre-composed score of a Mercedes commercial that you can analyze and emulate in your own Logic Pro session. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained new skills and the knowledge of commonly used industry scenarios to help you enter the professional market of scoring to picture.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: An Introduction to Scoring to Picture
5
Part 2: Project Setup and Navigation
9
Part 3: Methods of Scoring to Picture
13
Part 4: Synchronizing Music to Picture

Scoring a Commercial

In this chapter, we will explore how to score a Mercedes commercial from scratch using all the techniques that have been covered in Chapters 1 to 9. This chapter will give you the experience of scoring a project from beginning to end, and walk through the steps it takes to score to picture – not to simply write music for the sake of music, but to write it to support a story.

You will work through the example of scoring a commercial, using basic film scoring steps and methods. There are countless ways to score a commercial and music choices are subjective. You can certainly use any additional instruments if you find them suitable. There’s no perfect number of instruments but simply what a film composer prefers and what is suitable for the project.

We will explore how to select the right sounds and instruments, looking at the form, mood, and style, as well as the tempo of the commercial. We will also go over how to find, edit, and select instruments...