Film Scoring/Editing film for music

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These instructions are designed for GarageBand 3 plus the sounds of a symphony orchestra.
GarageBand is easy and fast yet powerful enough to do film scoring.
Please, tell me if you find anything as good!

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

Editing movies to add narrative music

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.

Shortcuts to the other music lessons for film scoring: The Introduction → "Fear" → "Joy" → "Drama" → The Workshop

Film Scoring Introduction Lessons for Filmmakers Introduction: Basic theory of film scoring Lesson #1: Sound of Fear - Individual notes Lesson #2: Sound of Joy - Rhythm Lesson #3: Sound of Drama - Melody Lesson #4: Butchering MIDI files - MIDI Lesson #5: Adjusting the film edit - dialog for music Exercises: Film scoring exercises - real scenes This lesson is part of the course on film scoring for non-musicians