Well, last week my composition professor Dr. Rob Kyr began to show interest in helping me to become a film composer! A recent graduate of the UO, Jeff Tinsley, got into USC's film scoring program last year, and I have high aspirations to follow in his shoes, which means that I need to create a film scoring demo as amazing as his. This is not going to be an easy task - this is the main demo that got him into USC:
For that video "Raven", Jeff went through an incredible amount of work, time, and money after first just finding the video on the internet and taking out all of the sound. He re-scored all of the music, recorded all of the voice-overs, recorded all of the sound effects, the most impressive part is everything behind the scenes with editing work (a good 40+ hours of work), and amassing a full orchestra with a good recording engineer (15+ hours of preparation). Everything you hear in that video is Jeff's doing, along with people who helped him to realize his demo. I recently asked him via facebook about the process he went through for this project, and he gave me the most amazing guidelines, that I know I will be able to use to create something great :-)
Rob Kyr told me that since we don't have a studio at the UO for recording and editing, I will have to ask Jeff what he did, and learn from him. This may mean traveling to a film studio somewhere, or at least finding the people that can help me in this feat. I am both extremely excited for this, and terrified by the fact that I don't know how to do any of it! However, Rob Kyr's words last week made me realize that I am not alone, and that I really do have all the help I can possibly need - I just need to find the right contacts and ask for it. Jeff is the most influential of all my contacts, I can't thank him enough!
I'm planning to stay in school for another two years (only one for my degree, and the second as a community member), so that I can create the greatest portfolio and film scoring demo that I can before applying for grad school. As a perfectionist, I tend to compose music very slowly, because I spend most of the time going back and correcting or editing music that I have already written, rather than going straight to writing new music. I feel that the more time I spend on a piece, the better it will reflect my own sense of musicality. Because of this, I want to have as much time as possible to compile my portfolio before grad school applications.
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