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ThinkSpace Education: Video Game & Media Composition

Institution ThinkSpace Education
Department Game Music and Audio
Web https://thinkspaceeducation.com
Email postgraduate@thinkspace.ac.uk
Telephone +44 (0)1243 256049
Study type Taught

Summary

As a composer you’ll find more work by being flexible and, as the game industry grows, you’ll find more projects that are able to compete with the blockbuster movie industry. This course equips you with the creative and technical skills to tackle a wide range of film and television projects from feature films to animation, as well as teaching you the technical and creative skills needed to succeed in the rapidly expanding world of video game music.

During this comprehensive Master of Fine Arts degree course, you will cover the skills taught in both our MA Composing for Video Games and MA Professional Media Composition degree courses.

Video games are now a huge sector in the entertainment industry, closely followed by film and television. This course addresses the core composition skills needed to compete in any industry whilst giving you comprehensive training needed to work at a professional level in both video games and linear media music.

On this course, you will learn:

  • To write linear music for feature films, television, animation, as well as game cutscenes and cinematics.

  • To write dynamic music for video games required for interactive gameplay driven by the player’s choices

  • To produce professional quality demos and sampled mockups

  • Collaborative and remote working skills, which are vital in such a connected global industry.

  • To use Wwise to implement your music interactively in fully functional Unity games, many specially designed or licenced for the course - including commercial releases.

  • The technical aspects of writing to picture, including spotting the film, working with hit points and markers, and responding to feedback by professional composers.

Our teaching staff and mentors are all current working professionals, many involved at the highest level in the business. Here are a few of the many who will be giving you individual feedback, either in writing, during weekly one to one mentoring sessions, or at the student workshops. This doesn’t include visiting lecturers, these are the people doing the teaching.

Game and film composition credits include:

Call of Duty Infinite Warfare League of Legends Batman Arkham Knight Forza Horizon 2 Resident Evil Cyberpunk 2077 Need For Speed Shift Walking Dead Assault Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Die Hard 4 Angry Birds Pokémon Movies Robot Chicken

They’ve worked for every major film and game studio and networks and production companies including Blizzard, Nintendo, Frontier, 2K Games, Disney, Dreamworks, Marvel, Netflix and many others.

Master of Fine Arts - MFA (PG)

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