Curriculum contd.

In term five, students learn the Creativity & Artistic Direction needed to acquire the skills to expand their musical creativity through exposure to different genres of music, practical music techniques (progressive repetition exercise of music), and critiquing music. Also, examination of music history for the purposes of finding artistic direction, inspiration, and building compositions, film composition, music & narrative analysis, and interactive music composition for video games and online media is heavily focused on.

In term six, students learn focus on Project Management skills for successfully dealing with large scale projects & budgets and also
effectively dealing with people and motivations.

In term seven, students are provided technical information on contemporary platforms that cover aspects of music production techniques, mixing, audio editing, Midi, surround sound mixing, and mastering.

In term eight, students focus on Skill Building via Portfolio. This area stresses the importance of creating and continuously reworking and updating a professional portfolio. Throughout the four terms, as the student is acquiring skills through “hands-on” labs, they are constructing both the contents of the portfolio and the presentation container. By this process of having a targeted product portfolio that personally indentifies the sound designer’s skills to potential clients, the prospective Music Producer has increased motivation to put in the extra hours outside of class learning and labs exercises that such a portfolio requires.

Gradutes

As a graduate of this program you are ready to take the role of a professional music producer who can independently write, perform, record, and deliver high quality musical projects. You are fully qualified to work in any studio environment and perform analog and digital recordings and collaborate with otheir industry porfessionals such as musicians, sound engineers, and studio managers.

As a complete producer, you will be able to work on sound design projects for the visual media and also compose and produce original tracks for film and television.

Program highlights

- Music theory & keyboard training
- Midi operations & sequencing
- Introduction to sound design, synthesis, and sampling
- Understanding the nature of sound & signal flow
- Critical listening from human perception of sound to the applications used for processing audio.
- Microphone construction & application
- Computer technology and its application in the studio
- Introduction to music technology in the studio environment
- Role of a music producer in the industry
- Music Business
- Microphone techniques
- Multi-track recording
- Songwriting
- Mixing techniques & audio processing
- Studio design & configuration
- Music production techniques
- Audio editing & effects processing
- The role of the music producer in the studio
- Recording & mixing with ProTools
- Surround sound configuration & mixing techniques
- Orchestration
- Music composition for film & television
- Band recording
- Music Remixing
- Theory of vocal arranging
- Signal processing using Reaktor
- Advanced digital sampling
- Film scoring
- Web development & internet media formats
- Studio Acoustics & construction
- Principles of using Melodyne for music production

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The student's mastery of the discipline will be evaluated through the completion of professional recording and production projects.