Where and how should you begin?
When and how should your score acknowledge important moments in scenes?
How do you score a cue and how can you elevate your cues to artistic levels?
How can you create themes that everyone remembers?
What are the most important things to consider when you are making the broad creative choices that will govern your entire Score?
Learn about the various kinds of digital and analog synthesis principles in this master class.
What can you do to ensure a prospective client can only hire you? How can you avoid years and decades going down a path that could result in zero career growth?
What are standard delivery requirements? How do you successfully attend a dubbing session and not lose your job and client?
Learn how to "blueprint" cues and finish them in record time!
Gerard Marino teaches Video Game Scoring
Learn how you can get massive value out of low budgets and use world orchestras!
Learn how to use Themes and Motifs to make a masterful cohesive score
Live Session Recording and Management
How can you master soundtracks so they won't be rejected by digital outlets?
How do you go about mixing large complex cinematic scores and optimizing your workflow for the highest production quality and speed?
How can you construct music into memorable and satisfying natural structures?
How can you convey moods and storypoints through musical harmony?
Why do human beings crave story and what makes storytelling work in Scoring?
Learn the actual acoustic principles that are at play and can make you a master Orchestrator.
What are the most important aspects of creating realistic mockups?
What can you do to best prepare for the process of doing revisions? What should you avoid doing? How can you avoid potentially being fired?
What are some of the best, and also some of the worst, ways you could allocate your Score Budget?
Learn the ins and outs and history of how to score for Animation
What are the best composing tools you should have in your studio, on any budget?
How important is conducting your music versus hiring a conductor?
How can you use client review sessions to your maximum advantage and also make sure you don't get fired?
How can you be sure what music goes where and why without being embarrassingly wrong?
How do you create and manage large scoring templates?
Everything you need to know to launch a career in Scoring as a Composer