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Film & TV Scoring With A Virtual Orchestra

Learn everything you need to write, produce, and create music to picture. In this class, film & TV composer Matthew Wang teaches you his complete process for scoring with a virtual orchestra. It's the same process he used to score Reno 911! The Hunt For Qanon,Reno 911! It's a Wonderful Heist, Centigrade, and many other films. Follow along as he creates an original score to a scene as he explains everything he is doing along the way.
$189.99

What’s included:

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    In-depth video lessons (6h 3m)

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    Step-by-step curriculum

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    Online and at your own pace

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    Watch on all devices

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    Unlimited lifetime access

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Award-winning film & television composer, known for his unique combination of organic soundscapes & electronic textures. Music featured on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, NBC, & more.
What you’ll learn
Spotting a scene & figuring out how to best serve the story with music
Using synthesizers to augment an orchestral arrangement
Creating a "piano map" as a guide for orchestrating and producing your music
Basic writing for strings, brass and woodwinds
Using spatialization tricks to give a wider, fuller sound 
Arranging, mixing, and exporting a scored scene

Class Overview

Learn all of Matthew Wang's virtual orchestration/scoring tips & tricks
Matthew Wang is an award-winning film and television composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York and Los Angeles. Merging his background in pop and electronic production with his field recording-centered approach to sound design, Wang creates inventive scores and soundscapes in which he strives to replicate human emotion through sound. His versatility has led him to write music for shows including NBC’s New Amsterdam, NBC's Young Rock, Showtime’s Yellowjackets, Netflix’s GLOW, as well as Shaquille O’Neal’s basketball animated short HeadNoise. He found his first feature film project in the IFC Midnight thriller, Centigrade (2020), which he co-composed with Trey Toy, and has gone on to score the television films, RENO! 911 It's a Wonderful Heist (2022) and RENO! 911: The Hunt for QANON (2021), with Craig Wedren. Aside from narrative work, the New York City-born artist also worked closely with documentarian Joseph Juhn on his set of acclaimed films, Jeronimo (2019) and Chosen (2022), which shed light on the unexpected and untold stories of the Korean diaspora. In this class, Matthew Wang teaches you everything he knows about crafting a score to a scene using a virtual orchestra, helping you develop your full potential as a film composer and musical storyteller. During class, Matthew brings you into his studio and shares his entire creative process from start to finish. Follow along with Matthew as he writes, produces, arranges, and mixes music for a scene from a film.

Lessons (6)

Apply what you learn

Follow Matthew Wang’s proven process, step by step

In the class, Matthew Wang breaks down his composing process into clear, actionable steps. Follow along with Matthew’s process step-by-step and create your own compositions to picture. You can also watch Matthew Wang’s process in full first and then bring the ideas, tools, and techniques into your own projects. By following Matthew Wang’s proven process, you’ll learn everything you need to write /arrange/produce music for films like these:

Who’s this class for?
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You're an experienced composer or hobbyists looking to drastically level up

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You're an aspiring composer looking to learn and practice the skills needed to write professional-level scores for films/TV

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You're a professional looking to hone your craft

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meet your instructor
Matthew Wang

Matthew Wang is an award-winning film and television composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York and Los Angeles. Merging his background in pop and electronic production with his field recording-centered approach to sound design, Wang creates inventive scores and soundscapes in which he strives to replicate human emotion through sound. His versatility has led him to write music for shows including NBC’s New Amsterdam, NBC's Young Rock (2022), Showtime’s Yellowjackets, Netflix’s GLOW, as well as Shaquille O’Neal’s basketball animated short HeadNoise for which he won a Hollywood Music In Media Award for Best Original Song For A Short Film. He found his first feature film project in the IFC Midnight thriller, Centigrade, which he co-composed with Trey Toy, and has gone on to score the television films, RENO! 911 It's a Wonderful Heist and RENO! 911: The Hunt for QANON, with composer Craig Wedren. Aside from narrative work, the New York City-born artist also worked closely with documentarian Joseph Juhn on his set of acclaimed films, Jeronimo and Chosen, which shed light on the unexpected and untold stories of the Korean diaspora. A graduate of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Wang is currently at work on his debut solo album.

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Frequently asked questions

$189.99

What’s included:

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    In-depth video lessons (6h 3m)

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    Step-by-step curriculum

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    Online and at your own pace

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    Watch on all devices

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    Unlimited lifetime access

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