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Under the guidance of seven music writing/producing professionals, participants will write music for trailers, television show scenes, interactive video game segments, and cues for feature films.
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The focus will be on creating effective music for today’s media and editing and mixing the final product.
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Students will work alone and in teams. There will be lots of writing, re-writing, and feedback from our guests and other students.
- Participants will give a public culmination at the end of the session.
Undergraduate: MUSIC 423, 3 units
Graduate: MUSIC 623, 3 units
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The course is for undergrad and graduate composing students who want to sharpen their commercial and media writing skills. We want participants to leave with a new understanding of the writing process as it relates to new opportunities and technologies in today’s market.
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Submit a sample of your work, at least three short pieces of dramatic background music in different styles, on CD or DVD, or if you are a new media composer, a personal statement about why you would benefit from a music writing class at your experience level.
- Send the materials listed in Step 1 with your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts Registration Office by Friday, May 15, 2009. THE DEADLINE TO APPLY TO THIS COURSE HAS PASSED.
Professor Elizabeth Sellers
elizabeth.a.sellers@csun.edu
818-677-3191
Ed Kalnins
Emmy-nominated synth music designer for over 200 films, television specials, live productions, and Disney theme parks world-wide.
Emmy-nominated synth music designer for over 200 films, television specials, live productions, and Disney theme parks world-wide.
Jim Dooley
2008 Emmy award-winning composer for Pushing Daisies, and member of Hans Zimmers’ Remote Control Productions working on Gladiator, The DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and others.
Check out his website at: www.jimdooley.com
2008 Emmy award-winning composer for Pushing Daisies, and member of Hans Zimmers’ Remote Control Productions working on Gladiator, The DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and others.
Check out his website at: www.jimdooley.com
Lennie Moore
Television orchestrator and game composer for Outcast, Plague of Darkness, Dragonshard, War of the Ring, and most recently for Watchmen.
Check out his website at: www.lenniemoore.com
Television orchestrator and game composer for Outcast, Plague of Darkness, Dragonshard, War of the Ring, and most recently for Watchmen.
Check out his website at: www.lenniemoore.com
William Malpede
Technical assistant and synth programmer to composer Christopher Young on Urban Legend, Runaway Jury and Spiderman 3. He has co-written songs featured in the films The Interpreter, Bangkok Dangerous, and The Other End of the Line.
Check out his website at: www.williamvmalpede.com
Technical assistant and synth programmer to composer Christopher Young on Urban Legend, Runaway Jury and Spiderman 3. He has co-written songs featured in the films The Interpreter, Bangkok Dangerous, and The Other End of the Line.
Check out his website at: www.williamvmalpede.com
Garry Schyman
Television and videogame composer with hits like Magnum P.I., Greatest American Hero, Destroy All Humans!, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, and BioShock.
Check out his website at: www.garryschyman.com
Television and videogame composer with hits like Magnum P.I., Greatest American Hero, Destroy All Humans!, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, and BioShock.
Check out his website at: www.garryschyman.com
Rick Garcia
Rick Garcia was born and raised in San Diego, TX a small south Texas town. He began playing the drums at age four and wrote his first song at the age of nine. After graduation, he moved to Austin where he played in a succession of bands then relocated to Los Angeles. In the late 1990's he began writing and performing songs for film. He has co-written and performed over 40 songs for such major films as Seven Pounds, Brokeback Mountain, My Best Friend's Girl, Collateral, Bangkok Dangerous, and The Interpreter to list just a few.
In April of 2008 he was invited to mentor, participate and collaborate in Free Style, a lyric writing competition held throughout Los Angeles high schools. The competition was the brain child of actor Jason Alexander and ASCAP. Over 1,500 aspiring lyricists competed. The competition culminated in having the top fifteen lyricists perform their work at a concert held at The John Anson Ford Theatre in June 2008.
Mr. Garcia is currently writing songs for numerous upcoming films. He remains one of the most in demand singer/songwriters working in film today.
Rick Garcia was born and raised in San Diego, TX a small south Texas town. He began playing the drums at age four and wrote his first song at the age of nine. After graduation, he moved to Austin where he played in a succession of bands then relocated to Los Angeles. In the late 1990's he began writing and performing songs for film. He has co-written and performed over 40 songs for such major films as Seven Pounds, Brokeback Mountain, My Best Friend's Girl, Collateral, Bangkok Dangerous, and The Interpreter to list just a few.
In April of 2008 he was invited to mentor, participate and collaborate in Free Style, a lyric writing competition held throughout Los Angeles high schools. The competition was the brain child of actor Jason Alexander and ASCAP. Over 1,500 aspiring lyricists competed. The competition culminated in having the top fifteen lyricists perform their work at a concert held at The John Anson Ford Theatre in June 2008.
Mr. Garcia is currently writing songs for numerous upcoming films. He remains one of the most in demand singer/songwriters working in film today.
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