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Further development of compositional skills as they relate to film, TV and video game scoring. Students will analyze historic and contemporary scores, considering the role of music when it is synchronized to picture. Students will be required to make short cues 'inspired by' or as 'clones' of cues from the movies they study. They will examine ways to invoke common cinematic moods using a range of scales/modes, intervals, chord sequences, and instrumental choices. In lab classes they will have time to individually work on simple exercises, making original themes and variations under headphones that they will then share with the rest of the class for critiques. They will have homework time to complete these pieces and be graded on them. Students will delve deeper into sample-based sound libraries, learning how to create simple orchestrations, arranged for common instruments but realized through software emulation. Software used in class: for composition--a digital audio workstation e.g., Logic Pro, Ableton Live, plus the Amadeus orchestral software library etc; for video editing and audio mastering--Avid ProTools.