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Music Composition for Film and Television by Lalo
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Financial Aid Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the great
Scholarship Program film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin
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shares his insights into the intimate relationship
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his most iconic scores, such as Mission: Impossible, Cool Hand Luke,
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Bullitt, and many others, and anecdotes from inside the Hollywood
studios, Schifrin reveals the technical details of his own working
approach, which has earned him six Oscar nominations, twenty-one
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Grammy nominations (with four awards), and credits on hundreds of
For-credit tuition: $1,400
major productions.
Non-credit tuition: $1,200
Add 6 CEUs: $25.00
Prerequisities
Credits: 3
You should be able to read notated music, sequence mockups of
Duration: 12 weeks
your music in your home studio, and import a given QuickTime
movie into your sequencing software for the purposes of writing Catalog #: BMW-190

music to the picture. Berkleemusic courses that help prepare you for
the work in this course include Getting Inside Harmony 1; notation
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software courses such as Music Notation Using Sibelius and Music
Notation Using Finale; music production software courses such as Ben Newhouse
Producing Music with Logic, Producing Music with Digital Performer, Assistant professor at
Producing Music with SONAR, and Producing Music with Cubase; Film Berklee College of
Scoring 101; and Orchestration 1. Music and a music
supervisor and
Required Software composer on dozens
Sequencing/DAW software. Students should be able to record of television shows,
films, and stage
MIDI in a sequencer, send that MIDI to a software program that
productions.
triggers samplers, and record the resulting audio as MP3.
Students should also be able to import a QuickTime movie into
their sequencer for the purposes of writing music to picture.
Viable programs include Digital Performer, Logic Pro, Cubase,
SONAR, and Pro Tools.
Sampling library, such as Kontakt, any Vienna Symphonic
Library, East West Quantum Leap, or Garritan collection. If you
do not own a sufficient sampling library, you can purchase East
West/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold Complete
Berklee Edition at an academic discount, once enrolled in the
course.
Notation software such as Finale or Sibelius is recommended.
Students who can produce scores in their sequencing (DAW)
software or by hand can use their current technique.
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Hardware Requirements

PC USERS

Windows XP or Windows Vista

3 GHz CPU (dual core CPU recommended)
2 GB RAM
4 GB of free HD space
Display resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
Sound card with ASIO drivers
MIDI keyboard/interface (minimum 25 keys)
For East West/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold
Complete: iLok Security Key

MAC USERS

Mac OS X 10.5 or higher

Intel Mac
2 GB RAM
4 GB of free HD space
Display Resolution 1024x768 pixels
CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
MIDI keyboard/interface (minimum 25 keys)
FireWire port
For East West/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold
Complete: iLok Security Key

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