Film Scoring Network - Berklee College of Music

Hello FSN!

This week we're going to be switching gears a bit to the world of game scoring. Berklee Professor Duncan Watt will be joining us this Friday to talk about video game contracts, which vary in many ways from the contracts you will see in film scoring. Make sure to bring plenty of questions, and we hope to see you all there!

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This week we will be joined by special guest Reema Iqbal from BMI (Broadcast Music Inc)! Some of you may have had the pleasure of meeting her when she was on campus for BMI Day with Alan Silvestri this past fall. Reema is a senior director creative for BMI in the Film, TV & Visual Media department. If you are interested in joining BMI and seeing what it has to offer, please join us this Friday. Hope to see you all there!

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This Friday we will be welcoming the Screen Scoring department's amazing assistant chair, , for a casual Q&A session! Bring any questions you would like to ask her about her career, the screen scoring department, and more! We hope to see you all there!

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Join us this Friday 02/10 from 1-2PM for an interview with Emmy Award and Grammy Award winner ! She has composed for animated TV shows such as Teen Titans, Ben 10, and many more for DC and Marvel. She has orchestrated for films such as X-Files: The Movie, Final Destination, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. In addition to that, she is one of the founders of the Alliance for Women Film Composers and a mentor for USC's Screen Scoring Masters Program. Join us to hear about her experiences in orchestration and composing for animated shows!

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This week we will be joined by Mason Bynes from the Career Center! As you might recall, Mason talked to us last semester, and this time around she will be covering topics such as interviews, preparing for sending cold calls, how to make the most out of this year's career jam, and more! Also, you're encouraged to bring examples of employers that you are looking to email in order for Mason to workshop that whole process with the club.

As always, take care (especially in this upcoming weather), and we hope to see you soon!

Hey everyone!

This Friday 12/9, we have a meeting all about writing for Indian music, led by the talented .wav and . Join us at 1 pm to hear about arranging and how to “write” for this genre, as well as some basic rhythmic compositional concepts and theory behind Ragas, etc.

This is also the LAST MEETING OF THE SEMESTER 😯 So, please join us before we head off to winter break !!

Good luck with finals and try to get some sleep 😅 See you Friday!

There won’t be an FSN meeting this week, but we will have one next Friday!

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Hope you are all doing well and able to make it through registration week! Since Tuesday is following a Friday schedule we will be having a very chill meeting before Thanksgiving break. We will be playing Kahoot! We hope to see you all there and enjoy your well deserved break.

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Hope you all enjoyed your day off! This week we will be joined by special guest Mason Bynes from the career center. We will be going over topics such as the best resume building practices for composers, so bring your laptops! You won’t want to miss this, hope to see you there!

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The time has come for our first rescore of the semester! In case you're not aware...
"This year we will be having a themed rescore just in time for Halloween. The clip is from the film A Tale of Two Sisters. This will be due November 3rd 11:59 PM and we will be presenting them and giving feedback during that meeting.

Link for the Drive is in in the newsletter!

It's not too late to submit something, so please turn in your submissions before November 3rd at midnight! We will be awarding prizes to the top 3 entries, so don't miss out on your chance to win some cool stuff!

See you soon!

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We hope you are all powering through midterms week. As a reminder our rescore competition is due next week on November 3rd at 11:59pm. We are currently working with the student government to allocate funding for prizes and should have those figured out shortly.

This week our chair Sean McMahon will be joining us again! He will be talking about some specific topics in relation to writing for horror. This is a perfect opportunity to get some inspiration for your re-score. He will be sharing some of his materials with those who attend the meeting so you won’t want to miss it!

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We are super excited to introduce our last (but not least) interviewee for the Fall 2022 semester: ! He produced Sean Mendes’ platinum hit “Treat You Better”, and composed the music for projects such as “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, “The Good Doctor”, “Far Cry 5”, “Station Eleven”, “Beasts of No Nation”, “Superman and Lois”, and most recently “Luca”!

We hope to see you there!

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This Friday, we will be Interviewing John Roesch ( ), the legendary foley artist who is known for his iconic sound design works, including R2-D2 from Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Knight, E.T., Avengers: Infinity War, Toy Story, and Soul, among many others. John will be talking about some basic principles of foley work and how it contributes to storytelling. He will also demonstrate some basic principles of sound design. So, get your questions ready for John as we will be having a Q&A session at the end of the interview.

See you on tomorrow!

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This Friday, we will be interviewing Disasterpeace, the Berklee Grad and now infamous composer behind hit projects such as It Follows, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Under the Silver Lake, Hyper Light Drifter, and Bodies Bodies Bodies! Come with questions for Rich, since we’ll have time for a brief Q&A at the end of the meeting. To see or buy his other work (including his plug-ins coming soon!), check out his website: https://disasterpeace.com

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This week we’ll be interviewing Jeremy Zuckerman, a Berklee alumni who’s best known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, as well as many other amazing films. If you would like to check out his works, here is his website: http://www.jeremyzuckerman.com Also, please feel free to bring some questions of your own for Jeremy, as we will have some time for a Q&A during our meeting. We hope to see you there!

Coming soon - Keep your eyes open for an email from us regarding our upcoming re-score event!

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This week we’ll be interviewing , a recent Berklee alumni who’s worked on a ton of cool movies as a scoring mixer, mastering engineer, orchestrator, and much more. If you would like to check out his works, here is his website: http://www.gerhardwestphalen.com. Also, please feel free to bring some questions of your own for Gerhard, as we will have some time for a Q&A during our meeting. We hope to see you there!