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Film Scoring Resources Notes 2013 Film Scoring Resources Katie Wardrobe Midnight Music Film Scoring: Finding and Preparing Resources 3 Pinterest 3 Finding Movies 3 General 3 Competitions 4 Movie trailers 4 Sibelius videos 4 The Ultimate Copyright-free Video 4 Free sound effects, loops and music 4 Sources of sound effects and loops 4 Capture and Convert Videos 5 Capturing YouTube videos 5 Converting "le formats 5 Copyright information 5 Smartcopying 5 Creative Commons 5 Film Scoring websites 5 Lesson Plans & Research Materials 6 Composers 7 Film Scoring: Finding and Preparing Resources Pinterest I have begun collec.ng all of the following links on Pinterest. It’s a much be:er way to share resources, so head on over there for a more visually-appealing way of viewing the following informaon! h:p://pinterest.com/kaewardrobe/film-scoring-resources/ Finding Movies General Archive.org h:p://www.archive.org/index.php • Site with thousands of copyright-free films • Within the site are “collec.ons” of videos (Prelinger archives, drive-in movie collec.on) • Check out the fantas.c Prelinger Archives: www.archive.org/details/prelinger. • Also contains NASA videos/footage. Try: www.archive.org/details/NasaSpaceLiPoff Openvideo.org hp://www.open-video.org/ • Excellent search engine • You can narrow your search to films of a specific duraon (less than one minute or 1-2 minutes) • You can also search for silent films Big Buck Bunny h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4 • Open source animated video 3 The Elephants Dream h:p://www.elephantsdream.org/ • The Elephant’s Dream is an open source code movie. All music and video files are available for download The Whitehouse hp://www.whitehouse.gov/ • Believe it or not, the Obama administraon has assigned a Creave Commons license to all material on the Whitehouse website. This means that you’re free to download pictures, video and text and use it for your own purposes as long as you aribute the source of the material Competitions Compe..ons are a useful source of film footage. The organiser of the compe..on usually makes short films available for download from their website. Try these: • Wallace and Grommit film scoring compei.on hp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ wallaceandgromit/ • Tropfest runs a Tropscore compe..on h:p://www.maxtv.com.au/tropscore/ • Turner Classic Movies: h:p://www.turnerclassicmovies-yfcc.com/ Movie trailers h:p://www.apple.com/trailers/ h:p://www.jurassicpunk.com/ • Both sites contain trailers for current and past movies (although be warned that trailers may not stay on these sites forever. It’s advisable to download them to your hard drive) • For trailers with no music, try Cloverfield & Ice Age 3 (the teaser trailer and trailer 1) hp://www.pdcomedy.com/ • This site includes old black and white trailers (try the Iron Claw trailer or the Superman trailer) Sibelius videos If you own Sibelius 4, 5 or 6 there are some short videos in the Example Scores folder (if you can’t see the Example Scores folder, you may need to download it from your Sibelius installer disc) The Ultimate Copyright-free Video Videos shot yourself or by your students! It makes a good cross-curricular ac.vity which will also make your principal happy. Free sound effects, loops and music Sources of sound effects and loops www.freesound.org • website with free music and sound effects www.findsounds.com • website for downloading free sound effects hp://ccmixter.org/ 4 • CC Mixter website is a community music remixing site. A great collec.on of music samples that you can legally download, re-use and remix Capture and Convert Videos Even though it’s against the Youtube terms and conditions to download Youtube videos, there are still many websites that provide you with resources to do so. Capturing YouTube videos h:p://www.youtube-ripper.net/ h:p://www.catchyoutube.com/ h:p://kickyoutube.com/ hp://keepvid.com Converting "le formats If you need to convert a video into a speci"c "le format, you can use one of these online converters: h:p://mediaconverter.org h:p://www.zamzar.com/ h:p://www.downloadhelper.net/ (Firefox plugin) h:p://media-convert.com Better still, you can download the free open source video converter software Handbrake: http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php Copyright information Smartcopying Copyright for Australian schools h:p://www.smartcopying.edu.au/ Creative Commons A nonprofit organisaon that encourages sharing and collaboraon of music, videos, text. Their byline is “share, remix, resue – legally” http://creativecommons.org/ Film Scoring websites • www."lmsound.org - there’s a fantas.c Film Music page which has links to a range of online ar.cles, resources and books: http://"lmsound.org/"lmmusic/ 5 • www.scoringsessions.com - excellent collec.on of photos from orchestral recording session. Also has videos about film scoring. See the video about the making of the Killzone 2 video game soundtrack. • http://www.soundtrack.net/ • http://www."lmmusicmag.com/ Lesson Plans & Research Materials Scary Mary: Mary Poppins reimagined! h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic Same Scene 5 Ways - a short video I made to illustrate the effect of different styles of music on one scene h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktKcnDfWs2c Youtube video showing effect of different styles of music on same clip from the Heroes TV series h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B92Bd_a52fI Back of the Mic: Behind the Scenes of a Radio Show h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ43UC5tIOY James Humberstone’s film scoring project with students from MLC School in Sydney h:p://composerhome.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/stage-5-film-project/ List of film score and soundtrack awards year 2000-2008 h:p://www.maxtv.com.au/tropscore/best_scores.php Naonal Film and Sound Archive (Australia) educaon sec.on h:p://www.nfsa.gov.au/educaon/ Screen Australia educaon sec.on h:p://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/learning/ Bri.sh Film Ins.tute educaon sec.on h:p://www.bfi.org.uk/learn.html ABC A Place to Think h:p://www.abc.net.au/aplacetothink/?#watch Film Street – educaon site for young students h:p://www.filmstreet.co.uk/default.aspa?flash= Detailed analysis of the themes in Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings score: • Click on the quaver icons to hear recordings of each theme and variaon • h:p://www.woodzie.org/lotr/index.html The Star Wars wikipedia entry 6 • Includes details about the themes in each of the Star Wars movies (with notaon and MIDI files) • h:p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_music#Principal_mo.fs Torrington High School (THS) website • THS runs two music technology courses which include film composi.on assignments • h:p://www.thsmusic.net/Assignments.htm • h:p://www.thsmusic.net/Assignments%20Tech%20II.htm Melbourne High School: Music in Adver.sing unit (by Hildy Essex) • From the aMuse website; VELS sample units • h:p://www.amuse.vic.edu.au/VELS/VELS.html Interviews with John Williams: there are many on YouTube. Here are just three: John Williams interview about the score for The Phantom Menace (part I): • h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdYflV5-a2c The Phantom Menace (part II) • h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPacQ6_V6ZM&feature=related Star Wars Revenge of the Sith • h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KiI84LSIrw&feature=related Ben Bur: demonstrang how he created the sounds for the Wall.E movie h:p://benburnterviews.blogspot.com/2009/02/ben-bur:-demonstrates-how-he-made-wall.html Composers There’s lots of informaon about individual film composers online. Try a search for the following: • John Williams • Danny Elfman • Howard Shore • Bernard Hermann • Michael Kamen 7.
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