How to Become a Film, TV, and Video Game Music Composer
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2016
- Greg Edmonson shows you what it's like to be a Film, TV, and Video Game Music Composer, why he loves his job and what steps you need to take if you would like to be a Film, TV, and Video Game Music Composer too!
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I've loved him since Uncharted. Amazingly talented man.
I’m a senior in high school (I’m currently 18) and I’ve been playing the piano since I was ten, and the violin since I was 13. A year ago I started playing the guitar, too. In my country (Italy) there’s this “special” kind of high school you can attend: they call it “musical high school”. You have to audition to get in. I auditioned when I was 13 and I got in. It’s just a regular high school, really, but you learn about music theory, harmony, music production and history of music. And, most important thing, you study two instruments that you can choose (well, kinda... ): the first one is the one you auditioned with (it’s the piano for me) and the second one is assigned (violin for me). I’m about to dive into my last high school year and I know that this is what I want to do: film composition. I know about harmony, and music theory, and I play three instruments, and yet sometimes even I get the feeling that I’ll never make it. My question is: how do I make it? What do I study at university? I know that there is a master in “Composition for screen” but I need an undergraduate degree before doing that, and I have no idea what to get it in. I also want to attend university in a country that will give me more opportunities, job-wise. People think that if you want to peruse a music career, Italy is the best country but, trust me, when it comes to composition, it really isn’t. Ennio Morricone is the exception. Nobody makes it here. I’m so lost. I know what I want to do, but I have no idea where to start. If someone has any ideas or any piece of advice, I’m begging you to share. Thanks for reading.
I'm in the same boat as you here in America! I'm 18 now, a senior, I play clarinet (have since 6th grade) and piano for fun since 7th. I go to a music school where they taught us theory for 4 years (fell in LOVE with it) and recently started writing lyrical songs and instrumentals. Took a Sound Engineering elective for 2 weeks where we got to score a short film and make an original instrumental. I don't know where to go from here but it's my passion and I want to make it my career so I'm here with you 🤚
The guy in the video said USC or UCLA which are both in America because of the connections aspect... I get that might be kind of hard since you're in Italy and hard for me since I already applied to different places- DANG IT.....
I'll keep my eyes open for you if I see anything helpful!!
this is what I needed thank you Mister Greg. I will be attending university to study Electroacoustic music in Concordia. Ill just find contacts while getting an education.
composing music for Ubisoft Warner brother Ea games it's my dream and I will make it happen
your videos are very very important to me right now
thank you sir Edmonson!
always follow your dreams :)!! How is your career coming along?
yo so how's it going
oh my god... those Uncharted OSTs... forever carved through my thoughts :)
My best friend's dad orchestrated some of those uncharted games. I think the second and the fourth one? I'm not totally sure but it think so
love the friendly, positive energy of this guy
This video was short, to the point, and incredibly helpful. Thanks!
Greg’s contribution to Firefly can never be underestimated. His work brings me joy.
This is my dream. Thanks for the insight!!
"I need you to step out of the car sir."
My dream job!
A most gifted person... "All art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose." ~ Baha'i Faith
Wow great words bro 😘
this is really interesting and helpful! Thank you :)! I am a composer myself. Really appreciate this video!
Many thanks!
Very interesting and instructive
I am beginning to compose and your video helped me
its my dream to become a film song composer, thank u sir for u tube videos
hari koneri same for me, good luck with composing🙂
@Any Rebel Never heard something about Ennio Morricone?
Awesome!
Composing music and making audio for games was my childhood dream and I am so happy to have a career doing it!
which career?
He sounds like a real good guy.
bgm perfectly suits this
Thank you for this video!
any advice on where to send your music if you like to get started in a film scoring career?
Thank you for your time
I like this. Thank you... I am way out of my league on this but thank you anyway...😃🥰😗
I wanna be a Film Composer
Zebra 2
*I make music just by ear, I never learnt piano or any instrument in my life, I need only single chance*
I am looking for someone to write some music for lyrics I just completed. Very good chance the POTUS will see it. Are you Interested? if so I will explain more.
Bob Hill lmao what
I think I'm nuts too, but here it is explanation inside google docs docs.google.com/document/d/1Tn8ry3nJWem7BBRyDb0iExWAI5ndrt5uF0XQCi9vjOA/edit?usp=sharing
Bob Hill not clicking that lol
good bloke
Wow! Still using Giga Studio?
🤘😎🤘
u can do it kiddo
I'm finna release a whole OST
Great advice. If you want to starve and have a bleak future, and live with rejection, then this is the field for you.
Hahahaha amazing advice... for anyone pursuing a creative career.
Doubt continue to kill more dreams than failure ever have.. Thanks Mark!
Where can i enroll to learn how to make... Music for film and tv... From scratch... I have no idea... Where to start please... Help me... I need to learn from basic to advanced... I am ready to give myself next three to three years... Dedicatedly. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Dreams don’t pay the bills. Believe in yourself!
Why would he says it’s a simpler process composing for tv and film than videogames? Anyone have any ideas?
I think because TV and Film are linear - scene starts, emotional beat after emotional beat, action picks up or slows down, and the scene wraps up. Video games go off in all different directions with a potentially different runtime as the player pursues different options/paths.
this guy is the dumpsterman outside my apartment complex. my life is the trumen show.
They don't want you to know this..
What does that even mean?
Can you Watch my GCSE Film Music GCSE composition and see if it would sound like film music
Почему это домашнее задание?
Has someone any nice mp4 videos, I can practice with?
Avid gear...expensive as shitttttttt. Dope studio set up lol
It's worth it. I love it.
Is 22years old to late to learn an instrument and become a composer?
ofc not
Yes it is, sorry. Finding work as a composer is extremely hard for experienced musicians. If you're just beginning, you don't even stand a chance. It would take you 10-15 years just to catch up. Work on something that you're already good at. However a sound engineer may work for you. And feel free to learn music as a hobby, but it simply takes thousands of hours to get to pro level.
I strongly and respectfully disagree. You can do anything you want in whatever period of time as long as you have the brains and perseverance. You can learn to make furniture from wood from scratch when you are 85, same applies to music. You never know what level of affinity someone has so globally saying that it takes x amount of time is 100% bullshit and made out of thin air. Finding work isnt that hard you just have to show up on ocassions that have networking possibilities. If you really love doing something, it doesn't matter when you start. p.s. generally speaking (or so they say), becoming a pro in something takes aproximately 10.000 hours. Thats like 5 years of non stop work. This guy is 22. He can become pro like 10 times over. Im really curious what makes you say this. Im a composer and I would f*n love for this guy to become one because it is the most awesome job on the planet (especially composing for video games). It isn't that difficult. Stop making music into such an impossible and otherwordly area of work. It's just a job just as much as any other. You don't even need schooling to become a composer. You can be a composer from the first day you decide you are. All this theoretical schooling (tho helpful for composing) isn't a fundamental requirement of actually composing. We are a part of nature, nature has evolved and given us music, it's inside of all of us from the day we are born.
and stop dissuading young people from becoming musicians/composers it is retarded and counter productive.
The guy asked an honest question and I gave an honest answer. I'm not going to rest my response on the chance he is some one in a million prodigy. And finding work IS hard. Dozens of people (or more) will fight for the same project, and if the project pays well those people will be extremely talented already. 22 year olds don't have the luxury to dedicate five years nonstop work to a new skill. They have to get jobs and start paying the bills. It will take several years of work just before he is able to get into a music school. He shouldn't risk the best years of his life just to learn a skill which he may not be good at - and earning no money either. It is technically possible to compose without schooling, but composing at high levels will require it. He could learn a bag of cheap tricks by himself, but real quality work requires real quality education. Music is a very hard profession for the pros - If you're late ten years its simply an unrealistic path. That's just the reality of it. I'm a composer myself. If he wants to learn music thats fine, but he needs to keep his day job. If he wants to learn music part-time, he could be a composer by 40. Maybe 35 with high talent.
Is it a requirement to learn how to play piano to be a composer?
no but it does help, with all the software instruments being played through midi keyboard. Learning basic piano is easy. a.co/1LQ7NxG
Highly recommended, but not a requirement.
what about music theory
Ratt Fink In my opinion, music theory is essential. Harmony, melody, dynamics. Very important stuff. Otherwise the music tends to lack variety and can become repetitive.
let's ask Hans Zimmer what he thinks of the all-importance of music education&theory
I am here because of Bloodborne...
What if people made beats that sound like video game music and just want to sell it? Not necessarily compose like that just make beats
Great advices. Composers should share (or sell) their pieces in aboutscores.com!
Who’s here from school
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Informative video. but this B roll is terrible. Let me play this unamplified electric guitar for a while. I’m playing piano and oh, the phone rings 😂
too general and vague to be of any real help except to this channel's views