Film Music Composition: Intermediate

Anyone aged 18 or over, with a passion for cinema and film music.  

You should have experience of writing music in a DAW, and one of the following: 

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By the end of the course, you will have composed the music for several film clips, encompassing multiple film genres, as well as having expanded your production, mixing and mastering skills as they relate to contemporary film music.  

You will also receive a one-to-one session with the course tutor (approx. 30 minutes). Dates and timings of the session will be confirmed during the course, the one-to-one session will take place online.  

This course is taught by Helen Noir and James Griffiths.  

Helen Noir, Professor of Electronic & Produced Music at Guildhall School, is a London-based soprano who combines performance work with writing, orchestrating and producing music for film and theatre. She writes in multiple styles from dance music to orchestral across multiple genres of film and often uses her own voice to create unique layered textures for cues. She teaches writing, producing and mixing music for film in styles from electronic to orchestral across multiple film genres from horror to comedy. 

She is resident composer of The AIDS Plays Project, a long-term member of cult performance art group Theo Adams Company and has written scores for numerous art-house short films as well as co-written horror features and trailers. Equally at home working with vintage synths or orchestral musicians, she is adept at all aspects of modern film composition from making convincing mock-ups to creating sound worlds. 

Multi-award winning composer James Griffiths began his musical career in the military recording extensively and performing worldwide with The Band of HM Coldstream Guards, with whom he was nominated for a Classical BRIT. In 2014 he transitioned into writing for film, games and television and quickly became established as a strong and versatile voice, equally adept at electronic, orchestral and hybrid composing. James has scored numerous films across multiple genres including Spitfire Over Berlin, Dogged, 68 Kill and The Drift (nominee Best Original Composition, 2016 Music & Sound UK awards). He is also a highly skilled and in-demand sound designer and mixer and co-runs Arch Post Audio, which provides world-class end-to-end sound services to the media industries, spanning composing, orchestrating, sound design, mixing, mastering and dub stage post-production.