MasterClass – Danny Elfman – Teaches Music for Film

Feature

• Class Trailer
• Class Sample
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Beginnings
• 3. Starting Your Score: The Spotting Session
• 4. Storytelling Through Music
• 5. Themes and Melodies
• 6. Real Time Listening: A Simple Plan
• 7. Instrumentation
• 8. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
• 9. Workflow
• 10. Creating Your Template
• 11. Insecurity and Instincts
• 12. Writing Feature Scores
• 13. Changing Your Approach: Milk
• 14. Chasing a Moving Edit
• 15. The Devil’s in the Detail
• 16. Real Time Listening: The Unknown Known
• 17. On Failure
• 18. Working With Directors
• 19. Crossing the Line
• 20. Advice to New Composers
• 21. Closing