Lesson:Mad Max: Editing film for music

This course in music and filmmaking is:

Film scoring introduction for filmmakers

This lesson is:

Lesson #5 - Editing film for music

The pages in this lesson are:

Page 1: Narrative music vs. Dialog

Lesson Summary - Make room for your music

Previously, you learn there is background music and foreground music.

And you learned that you must never have foreground music over dialog.

So how do you get room for the music.

Answer

You make room. You edit the movie differently.

How to get actors to stop talking

You need them to pause but they don't.

The solution is to pull apart their dialog.

This is only a trick but it works on most movie which use over-the-shoulder shots.

The next page

To work with Midi files, we need to get them into GarageBand.

• Importing Midi into GarageBand and symphony orchestra sounds

Contact your instructor

Your instructor for this film scoring class is Robert Elliott.

You can email me by clicking here.