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Videos for scoring practice?

Carles

Carles

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Hi guys, I'm googling for videos with voice and effects but no music (to practice scoring on actual images) and cannot find much about. Usually entries to forums where people is telling about to rip whatever and remove the audio, or mostly dead links to low quality video material. What I'm after is dialogs and all except music (ideally if quality might be inspiring).
I've got already some clips to work on because a friend ripped some clips from a version of a movie without music but all the rest on, and it was quite fun.
I'm wondering if there is any kind of online library gathering movie clips for scoring practice?
Is this kind of resource available anywhere?
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I read somewhere that Cast away has large parts of it where no music was used on the island. Should have some inspiring scenes in that.
 
Carles use something like SnapzPro. Then you can use just about any images/video you want. In your DAW, it should be able to isolate the audio from the video automatically. It does this in Logic Pro for sure. If you're using Cubase I would imagine it does the same thing.
 
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off the top of my head. First half of fantastic Voyage, Fight scene in Nepal Bar ( Raiders of the lost Ark ). Incredibly, the whole TREX scene in Jurassic Park, Long car chase sequence in Viva Las Vegas.....

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Both the original Black Christmas and Texas Chainsaw Massacre have score but it's mostly sound design-ish, low in the mix and sparse.
 
Maybe try taking the center of a 5.1 mix. On some films there's no score there. You'd obviously lose a lot of the effects and backgrounds but that would provide you with some good practice since you'd rarely get something to score that has the final, mixed sound on anyway.
 
It might be worth scouring the independent movie maker forums and see if you can pick up some short films instead. Sometimes the writing music part of our craft is the easy part, the things you really want to be getting experience in is working to someone elses vision, working on something you dont already have an emotional opinion about, being creative under deadlines.

Leaning on the job will help you infinitely more than scoring for the sake of it because it will introduce the possibility of failure, which isn't a bad thing and not something to be scared of. You will find you write with much more passions and creativity....anything to avoid failing, and THAT is where the real lessons are to be found.

-DJ
 
Daniel James said:
It might be worth scouring the independent movie maker forums and see if you can pick up some short films instead.... -DJ
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I have to agree with Daniel. The director/composer relationship is what drives the creative and technical process of film scoring. Sure, if you want to score to picture for the sake of learning your tools and software than you can pretty much use any movie and just turn the sound off. The real art of scoring a film is digging deep down and developing the music the director has envisioned for their film. In the end, it's about the film and not about your music.

Best,

Chris
 
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I also have last years movies, though I didn´t participate in the contest....maybe one day I´ll have enough time....

cheers
Thomas
 
thov72 said:
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I also have last years movies, though I didn´t participate in the contest....maybe one day I´ll have enough time....

cheers
Thomas
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Is there any way to still download the videos from previous years' competitions?
 
Studio E said:
Carles, please see my post here at the link.

https://vi-control.net/community/threads/a-question-for-anyone-and-everyone-here.53854/
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Thanks. Cannot have much time at once as per something like this currently, rather reserved to micro spare moments (just for fun) much more spare than I'd like, so could not reach any deadline as the work that feeds my family and my attempt to get into the Production Music business comes first, but might I achieve some day leaving my day job (which takes 50+ hours a week of my time) indeed would be fun to participate on something like this. Apart of fun it's also a noble reason given its educative nature.
Thanks for sharing.
 
Daniel James said:
It might be worth scouring the independent movie maker forums and see if you can pick up some short films instead. Sometimes the writing music part of our craft is the easy part, the things you really want to be getting experience in is working to someone elses vision, working on something you dont already have an emotional opinion about, being creative under deadlines.

Leaning on the job will help you infinitely more than scoring for the sake of it because it will introduce the possibility of failure, which isn't a bad thing and not something to be scared of. You will find you write with much more passions and creativity....anything to avoid failing, and THAT is where the real lessons are to be found.

-DJ
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Very well said!
 
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