Postgraduate Course: Composition for Screen B (MUSI11043)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is designed to improve the technical and creative abilities of the active screen composer student through practical applications and collaboratory projects. Additionally, there is opportunity to display their scoring work and research in front of a group.
Further aims and objectives include:
- To improve awareness and knowledge of sophisticated practices in production of music for screen, including working within a scoring session environment.
- To orient students with the challenges of working on a sophisticated media studio environment project.
- To improve student ability to perceive and analyse music in film, TV and media genres.
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| Course description |
The course is structured around practical projects and research presentations.
During weeks 1-2, students will be involved in a virtual collaboration project with several different institutions entitled 10x10, in which each student must compose music for 10 (or more) short films within 10 days and collaborate online. Students are required to participate and submit as many works as possible for online presentation (and later for a live event), but will only need to submit the best selection as part of their course portfolio.
Sometime during weeks 6-8, students will be involved in a scoring project, in which they are to conduct a film music orchestra in a scoring session simulation. Students will be allocated a film (or cues) to work on and given tutorials on conducting and session management. This normally takes place in the Reid Concert Hall.
Toward the end of the semester, students will research and analyse a particular media composer and/or composition for screen element in greater detail, and present this to a group. Students will meet as a group and decide mutually, with the course leader's supervision, which element the course group will research and present this analysis.
In addition, other resources will be presented, such as through guest speakers from the professional media music industry, interviews and group visits to the Reid Studio, the ECA film and TV department, etc.
Students are offered tutorials with the course organiser on a roughly bi-weekly basis, which are scheduled when the student requests.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Gather research materials for public presentation in music for screen.
- Establish their first contacts in the local media music industry.
- Recieve feedback of works-in-progress and perceived music for screen analysis and techniques.
- Gain experience in presenting works-in-progress and/or research in front of a group and receive constructive feedback.
- Work with others in disseminating factors of necessary analysis for a group.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Composition Media Film TV |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Yati Durant
Tel: (0131 6)50 2427
Email: Y.Durant@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: Jennifer.A.Watson@ed.ac.uk |
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