Film scoring/Score home wrecker

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Just two musical cues

 * All you have to do is two (2) musical cues for this lesson. That is all.


 * If you want to do more, that is OK, too.


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Disk required for this lesson

 * Lesson requirements
 * This course uses disks from the Star Movie Shop. I can loan the disks to you if you promise to return each disk in one month.  (The disks are not copy protected.)


 * When you are ready, tell me that you want to borrow the disk called "Home Wrecker".  @undefined


 * Earn points for the next lesson.
 * When you complete a film score for this scene and return the disk to me, you qualify to borrow the next disk.


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Getting Started
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There is a page which tells you how to set up GarageBand to do film scoring. If you have not done this before (with any program), go to How to score with GarageBand.
 * If you need help setting up your program


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Disk Contents

 * DVD-Video
 * You can play this disk in any modern DVD-Video NTSC player or using a DVD-Video player in your computer.


 * Even though you will be only doing the film scoring, you might want to look at the entire DVD-Video disk.


 * DVD-Data Section
 * Also on the disk is a DVD-Data section with data files for film scoring and film editing.


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What did she do last night?

 * The real thing
 * Finally, you get to score a scene from a real television drama.


 * This scene is from "Home Wrecker" from the Star Movie Shop who is the sponsor of these lessons. This disk is an editing workshop for young film editors but the disk also contains a finished edit of the scene for you to create a film score.

The story for this series

 * Her history
 * The young woman is a super hero. She protects the world from vampires.  And most important, she is super strong.


 * But after 6 seasons of slaying vampires on television, the young woman still cannot get a boyfriend (because of her super strength) and she cannot get a good job (because she is too busy killing evil monsters.)


 * His history
 * He is one of the "undead". But he is really, really cute.


 * The dilemma
 * What is a girl to do?


 * Now it is the morning after. Now she realizes what she has done.  (And she wrecked the house doing it.  That super strength, remember!)

The story of this scene

 * 1) The young woman and the man are sleeping.
 * 2) The young woman wakes up and is surprised... and maybe horrified or perhaps secretly happy about last night.
 * 3) When the young woman realizes that the house has been destroyed and she asks, "When did the house fall down?"
 * 4) The man replies, "I don't know. It must have been between the first time and..."
 * 5) The young woman (and the audience) thinks about this for a while. (For the long edit of this scene, she thinks about this for a long, long time.)
 * 6) Finally the young woman says, "Oh. Oh my Gosh!" (Actually, she does not say "Gosh" so you need to hide that mistake with your music.)


 * End of scene.


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Your assignment

 * Compose and perform two musical cues (pieces of the film score) for this scene :
 * Load the edited version of the scene into your music program.


 * The music can start two seconds before the beginning of the scene. This creates continuity between scenes.

A sample spotting session

 * Instructions from the director or the producer of the TV series
 * Here is a typical list you might get for scoring this scene.


 * Remember, for this assignment, you only have to do two musical cues.

Hide her words!

 * Here is the exception to the rule.


 * The rule


 * Previously, you learned that you never use foreground music (loud music) when there is dialog.


 * The exception to the rule can be to hide mistakes


 * When you do not want the audience to hear the words of the actor, you can cover the words with loud music. The audience will still hear the words but because of the loud music, the audience will not understand the words or pay attention to the words.


 * Please cover her words
 * That is needed here. You must add music to prevent the audience from thinking about the words of the young woman.  She was supposed to say, "Oh my Gosh!".  She said something different.


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[[Image:Blue check.svg|32px]]Start here - Your first assignements for Home Wrecker[[Image:Applications-multimedia.svg|48px]]

 * If you wish, you can start with the two longest cues
 * Please start by creating the cue for Sleeping


 * When you are finished, send this cue to me.


 * The second cue you might want to try is "What they did last night?"
 * If you wish, please create the cue for what they did last night. This is probably the most fun to do. Or you can try another.


 * When you are finished, send this cue to me.


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The next exercise

 * Next, you will create scores for two more scenes. Click here for your last lesson.


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