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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
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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

Setting the volume level of tracks

In this section, we will go through all the tracks in the commercial and set approximate volume levels to help them blend better together so that the sound will support the commercial.

Setting the volume level of each track involves considering the mood and the mixture of sounds in the arrangement – some may need to be louder and some softer. Also, prioritizing each track volume level, based on the role of the sound, is crucial during the mixing process. When mixing, you need to consider whether the sound should be placed in the foreground, middle ground, or background. In all of the examples in this section, we will explore sound placement by using busses.

After reviewing why we should set the volume level, we will now go through all of the tracks and explore how to set the volume levels. As you’re working through each step of the examples, make sure to save your session.

To begin, we will start with track 1. Since it is a...