MIKE LADOUCEUR'S COMPLETE FILM MUSIC COURSE

This comprehensive and proven course will show you how to write music to picture with each step from concept to delivery

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Mike Ladouceur has years of experience working in Hollywood film music as well as academia. His debut album, Between Worlds, was released in 2019 and he is published by Warp Publishing.

By enrolling in this course, you will learn the skills necessary to write and deliver music effectively for any size production. You will understand how music is created for the biggest productions giving you the skills necessary to work as an assistant to top level composers as you begin your career.

Mike is a Professor of Composition for Screen at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London, one of the top rated film music Masters programmes in the world. He is also an Affiliate Lecturer at Cambridge University teaching film music courses.

He has written additional music and arrangements for many productions including His Dark Materials (HBO/BBC), Marcella (ITV/Netflix), Love. Wedding. Repeat (Netflix). He has also worked as Orchestrator on major blockbusters including Black Widow (Disney/Marvel), Ad Astra (Plan B), Gemini Man (Skydance/Paramount), 6 Underground (Netflix), Mission Impossible: Fallout (Paramount) and many others.

STUDENT TESTIMONIAL

CURRICULUM INCLUDED

UNIT 1 - COMPOSING THEMES AND SUITES

  • Themes and Suites

  • Creating Thematic Material

  • Walkthrough of Lucy's Theme from How We Live

UNIT 2 - PRODUCING DEMOS

  • Fundamentals of Programming

  • Foundational Mixing Concepts

  • Polishing Lines and MIDI Orchestration

  • Creating Dynamic Textures and Adding Color

  • Exporting Stems

UNIT 3 - SETTING MUSIC TO PICTURE

  • Story Beats in a Scene

  • Directing the Story with Music

  • Role of the Music Editor

  • Music Editing from Stems

  • Conforming and Composing Cues

UNIT 4 - RECORDING SESSION PREPARATIONS

  • Cleaning Sessions and ProTools Prep

  • MIDI Sketching and Orchestrating

  • Layout and Formatting for Scores and Parts

  • Music Team in the Recording Studio

  • Creating your Recording Plan

UNIT 5 - HOME/SMALL STUDIO RECORDING AND MIXING

  • Microphone Positions and Use Cases for Each

  • Editing and Tuning Live Recordings

  • Combining Live Recordings with Samples

  • Mixing and Finalising your Tracks