Product Description

Scoring for film has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. With the advent of MIDI, sequencers and low-cost recording gear, just about any composer anywhere can score a film. Well-known composer Sonny Kompanek teaches this new film scoring process at prestigious New York University and now he shares his secrets within the pages of From Score to Screen. Learn about the cast of professionals you’ll work with as a film composer. Find out how to meet people in the business, network, and create a promotional demo. Learn how to compose themes and battle writers’ block. Understand how to preview a score with the director and manage requested changes. And know how to make a director happy with your work. With this book, you’ll gain practical knowledge that you can put into action immediately.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213568 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Released on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 196 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780825673085
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"This is an invaluable and extremely important book for any aspiring composer seeking a career as a film composer." -- Roy M. Prendergast, music editor and author of Film Music: A Neglected Art

About the Author
Sonny Kompanek has orchestrated more than 60 major feature films (including The Rookie, Conspiracy Theory, Hudsucker Proxy, It Could Happen To You, Rob Roy, and Barton Fink), TV productions (including Sex & the City, Nero Wolfe, Witness to the Mob, and South Pacific), and artist arrangements for Wynton Marsalis, Wyclef Jean, Boyz II Men, Soul Asylum, and Victor Borge. Kompanek has taught at various music schools, including Eastman School of Music, Mannes College of Music, and currently New York University. He lives and works in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Informative, practical, and thoughtful.
Having just started in the business of writing music for film and television, I needed a new book to walk me through the practical aspects of film scoring. This book accomplishes that, and more. It goes through the step by step process by which a contemporary film composer can get work, interact with a director, creatively write a score, edit and tweak it, and record it in a studio environment. It's well written, very communicative, and has already helped me figure out where to go to drum up business, and how to write music for film quickly and confidently. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to write music for film and T.V.

Extremely useful real world advice.
This is a wonderful book for anyone who is interested in the art of film scoring. "From Score to Screen" contains an abundance of great advice for beginning film scorers as well as composers who are more established. Topics include: score preparation and how to make the live orchestra session run smoothly, as well as advice and tips on converting a midi mockup to a full orchestra recording. Great insight from an expert.

Rock-solid advice from someone whose been there
An excellent book that takes it's title quite literally - From Score to Screen. This book DOES NOT teach you how to write a score, rather it assumes that you have a computer-sequenced score written and are now converting that midi mockup into a full orchestral recording in a professional recording studio with a large orchestra and several helper professionals to assist you. As such, this book does a wonderful job in covering, very specifically, the nuts and bolts of part extraction, conducting ,and just what all those helper professionals at the session (copyist, orchestrator, mixer) do. Although, obviously, I have never gone through this process, this certainly seems like rock-solid advice from someone whose been there (repeatedly).