Simplify, simpify, simplify!

For this lesson, you use midi files to create a film score.

1. Locate great sounding midi files from classical music (before 1900).

2. Isolate a single phrase, usually one to three seconds long.

3. Isolate a single instrument (or two) from the entire. You want the main melody without much else.

4. Built the music sound effect from these few notes (or cords) by assigning the elements to different instruments of the symphony orchestra which create the emotion you are looking for. This will always be different from the original musical instruments.

The goal is to get a professional sound which is simple and pure.

Film scoring lessons

Below are Mad Max's Music Lessons. To the right are general filmmaking lessons.

• 1. The Sound of Fear
• 2. The Sound of Joy
• 3. Creating film scores from Midi files
• 4. Creating a humming score
• 5. Film Scoring Workshop - Movie for Television

Supplemental A: Examples of Narrative Music Supplemental B: A fun movie which needs a film score

Contact Your Instructor

• Your instructor for this class is Robert Elliott.

Please email me by simply clicking here.

Lessons in
→ Basic Filmmaking →

• Format the movie script → → Start here to learn filmmaking
• Create the storyboard