Intro to Scoring for Film & TV: A new course from Soundfly

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Eerie violins, rolling timpani, ethereal tones, epic fanfares, haunting melodies... the music in films and TV shows plays a massive role in how we experience those stories, heightening our emotions and deepening the impact.

In this in-depth course, we're going to walk you through you everything you need to know to start scoring to picture, from how to compose your first demo to how to navigate the industry. This course features interviews with some amazing film scorers working in Hollywood and in independent film and media today, including Amanda Jones (Black Lady Sketch Show), Sherri Chung (Riverdale, Kung Fu), Gary Yershon (Mr. Turner, Peterloo), Ian Hultquist and Drum & Lace (Dickinson), and Andrew Orkin (Save Yourselves!, The Next Thing You Eat).

Plus, you'll learn to analyze groundbreaking music cues from dozens of films, like Arrival, Dunkirk, Chernobyl, Psycho, and more. And you'll get first-hand experience honing your compositional chops by writing leitmotifs to character descriptions, creating a musical "lookbook" for some fictional film projects, and writing full cues, using reference tracks and cue sheets, to scenes from real films and video projects that you can include in your own demo reel.

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Special thanks to the composers featured in the course for their time and expertise — Amanda Jones, Sherri Chung, Gary Yershon, Ian Hultquist and Drum & Lace, and Andrew Orkin. Thanks also to Soundfly Mentor Tim Maryon who got this course started and wrote a lot of the initial outline and content. From there, the course was crafted with care by the Soundfly Team, including Martin Fowler, Ian Temple, and John Hull, with support from Carter Lee and Mahea Lee. Additional insights and contributions were provided by Andre Madatian and Zac Zinger and video production support from Ted Maniatakos.

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