Event Choice: Film Music Seminar – Free in NYC, Tuesday Jan. 15th

Hot on the heels of the 85th Annual Oscar nominations, film music is at center stage this week.

Frank Ferrucci has the latest on film music, at Tuesday’s free seminar.

New York City-area composers, or just film and TV buffs, will appreciate the free seminar “Approaches to Music for Film and Visual Media” being held this coming Tuesday, January 15th, 7 PM, at the SoHo Apple Store (103 Prince Street).

The seminar kicks off the 2013 series offered by NYC-based film and TV composer Frank Ferrucci, sponsored by Apple and Manhattan Producers Alliance as part of their Film Music and Audio series.

Here’s more from Ferrucci on what to expect this Tuesday:

“New York City Film and TV composer Frank Ferrucci’s seminar ‘Approaches to Music for Film and Visual Media,’ presented to enthusiastic and capacity audiences in New York and Brazil, gives a behind the scenes look into the creative process and real life challenges of composing music for film and visual media.

Frank presents an educational and entertaining seminar, sprinkled with anecdotes from his long career. He lays out a fascinating description of a musical life that has strongly influenced his approach to film music, beginning with his roots as a Latin/Brazilian jazz pianist and band leader, through his work with modern dance, to his composing career today.

This seminar will be enjoyed by students, composers, musicians, producers, and film music lovers in general who would like an opportunity to view through a veteran composer’s eyes the creative, collaborative and technical processes involved in making music for film.

Frank explores the approaches used by composers of several famous films and, using examples from his own work, shows particular insight into how he himself creates music for the moving image. Frank’s interspersed anecdotes about his long career are some of the most entertaining and enlightening moments of the seminar.  And most importantly, he exposes the “strategy of storytelling”: the creative process involved in musically and emotionally supporting the narrative of a film and the vision of the film maker.

The seminar also addresses some of a composer’s less obvious responsibilities as Frank delves into the history and evolution of setting up film cues; working with timings and tempo; the use of past and current technology in the art of film scoring; how computers are used in the creative process and how technology can be used to help make a composer’s job easier.”

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