Complete Guide to Film Scoring: The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies and TV

I thought this book was very insightful and after 8 years in this business as a music supervisor, I was still able to learn something new! Thoughtful quotes from rockstar composers and a great overview of the composting process from beginning to end! It's also nice that they have a section in there about the business side of composing.

It is surprisingly easy and pleasant to read. But it is NOT about teaching you MUSIC, like, how to orchestrate for a certain scene or a mood, bout about PRODUCTION, the function of music within a movie, a little bit of history of cinema, business and stuff! Strongly recommend to al those who aspire to be part of the world of Film Scoring!

As a teacher of music this was a perfect fit for my class...we are creating film music for our stories. This IS the book for that.

I would like to clarify that this isn't a review of the book but a review of the format. Unfortunately, text search and Ctrl+F are disabled on my Kindle cloud reader desktop app. I am trying to look up topics, ie. Melody, and so I go to the index to get a page number. However, page numbers are removed and the reader only shows "locations". There is no mention of "melody" at location 136. In addition, the zoom function is not working properly. I should be able to zoom in on a two page spread to read a paragraph with ease. Get it together, Amazon.

This book is very easy to read and understand. It is the kind of the book that is full of information, and you don't want to put it down. I highly recommend this book to everyone that is interested in film scoring.

excellent

Specific, insightful, and easy to read without losing the specific lexicon for its topics.

There's a lot of information about film scoring. It's good and affordable price. It talks about history when the music involved in the film industry and tips and tricks if you want jump into this industry.

Overall this is still a good resource for some history of music in film and TV as well as a basic overview of copyright and publishing. However, the technology components, and the gendered language are overdue for an update.

Está en inglés. Empieza con una larga introducción explicando la evolución de la historia de la música en el cine a lo largo del último siglo.Habla en profundidad de todo el proceso de creación de una banda sonora (no de técnica musical, pero sí ejemplos del proceso creativo).En especial resulta interesante darse cuenta de las dificultades por las que llega a pasar un compositor (plazos muy cortos, decisiones comerciales que afectan a la creatividad y la calidad de las obras).También habla sobre el proceso de post-producción, cómo se contrata a la orquesta, derechos de autor, etc.. La parte creativa de la industria del cine.Al ser un libro que tiene más de 10 años (prinera edición de 1999, actualizado en 2010) cuando hablan del uso de ordenadores para componer o hacer "demos" para el director de la peli, queda claro que hoy en día es más fácil y barato. Ayuda a valorar lo difícil que era componer hace no mucho tiempo.La parte final del libro incluye muchísimas entrevistas con diversos compositores (Danny Elfman, Michael Kamen, Shirley Walker, David Newman, David Raksin, Alan Silvestri, Marc Shaiman, Alf Clausen, Richard Gibbs, Cliff Eidelman). El conjunto de anécdotas y experiencias te ayuda a valorar y entender el proceso de creación. La variedad de técnicas para enfrentarse a una película (hay compositores con unas habilidades compositivas increíbles y otros que necesitan más apoyo de orquestadores), cómo consiguieron entrar en el mundo del cine, etc...No te habla de técnica ni lenguaje musical (como decía Jerry Goldsmith, no se puede enseñar cómo hacer la música de cine, se aprende trabajando).La edición en papel es de tapa blanda y está bien encuadernada.¡Un libro inspirador!

At the beginning i could not put this book down. It covers ALL aspects of the sound in film industry you need to know and the interviews are excellent first hand material of nearly all the most successful holywood composers. I just wish they had John WIlliams in there too. THat would have made it the cherry on the top.

A very extensive book on the American scoring business for t.v and film. Every thing from technical to personal. No musical tips and trick though.

I am super careful with all my books--my paperbacks don't even get creases because I don't open them very wide. But this book's binding cracked and split, with pages coming loose within a couple days of reading.The contents of the book are great--it was used for a film scoring class in college.