Here are a few short orchestrations that I composed for smaller assignments in my film scoring course.
Clayton
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Film Scoring Course: Weeks 8 & 9
Hello all,
My family is making its way back from an awesome family reunion in North Carolina. We stayed on the Outer Banks for a week and spent nearly the entire time playing games and surfing (or attempting to, in my case).
My course continues to be fun and informative!
Music
Week 8 - Slow Drama. I enjoyed scoring this deleted scene from the movie Atonement.
Week 9 - Horror. This was a fun assignment; messing around with textures and dissonance; getting the orchestra to do crazy stuff!
Clayton
My family is making its way back from an awesome family reunion in North Carolina. We stayed on the Outer Banks for a week and spent nearly the entire time playing games and surfing (or attempting to, in my case).
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| Sunset Behind Broken Pier (hdr photo I took on the Outer Banks) |
My course continues to be fun and informative!
Music
Week 8 - Slow Drama. I enjoyed scoring this deleted scene from the movie Atonement.
Week 9 - Horror. This was a fun assignment; messing around with textures and dissonance; getting the orchestra to do crazy stuff!
Clayton
Monday, November 12, 2012
I have been getting very into photography lately. I got a
nice camera finally (Nikon D1500) because I knew I was going to be
traveling this winter and have been taking it everywhere I go. I have also been messing around with some HDR software which combines photos of different exposures to create some neat effects. Unfortunately I have the trial version so it sticks watermarks all over my photos.
I had never heard of HDR until a month or two ago when I was looking up pictures of New Zealand and came across Trey Ratcliff and his blog "Stuck in Customs." He is an incredible photographer and I would recommend checking out his amazing photos http://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/
I had never heard of HDR until a month or two ago when I was looking up pictures of New Zealand and came across Trey Ratcliff and his blog "Stuck in Customs." He is an incredible photographer and I would recommend checking out his amazing photos http://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/
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| Eagle |
(sometimes) Weekly Improv #2
The reason for our bike ride was for J'rae and I to practice packing our bikes for our up-coming travel in New Zealand. We are heading out on December 10th to bike all around the north and south islands of New Zealand. We are going to do some Wwoofing on cool farms, explore, take photos, and play lots of music!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Berklee College
Hello everyone,
I visited Berklee College of Music in Boston the other day and fell in love with the school. I have already applied to the college and have my audition scheduled for the 8th of December.
As well as visiting Berklee I checked out New England Conservatory but NEC was more classical and performance focused. You go there to become a master at your instrument. The only thing that really caught my interest was their incredible performing hall filled with gold paint and fancy woodwork. It far out-shone any of Berklee's performing halls and seemed an inspiring place to perform. Still, Berklee won out over NEC hands down for what I'm looking for. It had much more of a creative, professional atmosphere. Peaking into their film scoring classrooms and studios made me drool with envy and excitement. They were packed full of composition workstations with electric pianos and computers at every desk. They are constructing a new set of dorms which will include a recording studio that can fit an entire orchestra for film scoring!
But aside from the bells and whistles that the school provides I was also impressed with its ideals around accepting musicians. The audition and interview process is much more open and personal than I thought at first. I imagined coming in, playing my piece while the "deciders" critically watch my every mistake and then being asked a few questions and sent on my way. This is more the image that I had a year or two ago when I thought music colleges like Berklee were all strictly classical and I was intimidated by the image. At Berklee you play your piece and then you actually get to jam with some of the teachers as they test your improvisational skills!
Yeah, I am pretty excited. We'll see if I get in with a (very) big scholarship and if not then I will try again next year.
Best,
Clayton
I visited Berklee College of Music in Boston the other day and fell in love with the school. I have already applied to the college and have my audition scheduled for the 8th of December.
As well as visiting Berklee I checked out New England Conservatory but NEC was more classical and performance focused. You go there to become a master at your instrument. The only thing that really caught my interest was their incredible performing hall filled with gold paint and fancy woodwork. It far out-shone any of Berklee's performing halls and seemed an inspiring place to perform. Still, Berklee won out over NEC hands down for what I'm looking for. It had much more of a creative, professional atmosphere. Peaking into their film scoring classrooms and studios made me drool with envy and excitement. They were packed full of composition workstations with electric pianos and computers at every desk. They are constructing a new set of dorms which will include a recording studio that can fit an entire orchestra for film scoring!
But aside from the bells and whistles that the school provides I was also impressed with its ideals around accepting musicians. The audition and interview process is much more open and personal than I thought at first. I imagined coming in, playing my piece while the "deciders" critically watch my every mistake and then being asked a few questions and sent on my way. This is more the image that I had a year or two ago when I thought music colleges like Berklee were all strictly classical and I was intimidated by the image. At Berklee you play your piece and then you actually get to jam with some of the teachers as they test your improvisational skills!
Yeah, I am pretty excited. We'll see if I get in with a (very) big scholarship and if not then I will try again next year.
Best,
Clayton
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Film Scoring Course
Hey all,
My Berklee course is going very well. I am now into the seventh week and am amassing a nice collection of orchestrations. The quality of work that I am producing has increased dramatically since the start of this course and is continuing to improve!
Week 4 - Action: we scored an ambush scene from the movie Iron Man.
Week 5 - Heroic: another scene from Iron Man.
Week 6 - Adventure: a deleted scene from the animated film Atlantis. The scene doesn't exactly fit into the "adventure" category that we studied this week but it was still fun to score. I included the audio from the video in this one.
I thought it would be neat to upload the video from week 6 so here it is.
Clayton
My Berklee course is going very well. I am now into the seventh week and am amassing a nice collection of orchestrations. The quality of work that I am producing has increased dramatically since the start of this course and is continuing to improve!
Week 4 - Action: we scored an ambush scene from the movie Iron Man.
Week 5 - Heroic: another scene from Iron Man.
Week 6 - Adventure: a deleted scene from the animated film Atlantis. The scene doesn't exactly fit into the "adventure" category that we studied this week but it was still fun to score. I included the audio from the video in this one.
I thought it would be neat to upload the video from week 6 so here it is.
Clayton
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