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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)
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Part 1: An Introduction to Scoring to Picture
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Part 2: Project Setup and Navigation
9
Part 3: Methods of Scoring to Picture
13
Part 4: Synchronizing Music to Picture

Structuring the cue

Structuring the cue is like creating a musical roadmap. It considers what the music should be doing during the beginning, middle, and end sections of the commercial. Before the composing process begins, it’s important to know the overall story of the commercial. You will want to look at the entire commercial and come up with a structure for the cue, which will involve looking at the scene cuts and determining what type of music needs to be there and when, or you may get a rhythmic idea. This will give you a general overview of what to do musically.

In general, we are going to create one continuous piece of music, or one cue. To outline the process of structuring the cue, we will start with the lo-fi piano to set the overall mood with a few ambient sounds in the background. At bar 11, TC 01:00:24:05 (Cut to the bridge car passing), we’ll start to bring in more sonic elements to start building toward the middle section. At bar 16, we will use the...