Date - March 15, 2022 - May 18, 2022, Tuesdays & Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm PST

Schedule - 20 sessions - 10 classes & 10 working labs

Price - $200 WAM Members / $250 for non-members.

*Scholarships Available

Class Description

This class, sponsored by ESPN, will be held virtually over the course of 10 weeks (20 sessions) and will cover a basic toolkit for composing and mixing for commercial and film media. You’ll hear from guest speakers in the industry whose music has been placed in television, ads and film or are part of a composer team, as well as industry professionals from ESPN and music licensing and publishing companies. We will discuss the various job and career opportunities in composing beyond commercial work, and will deep dive into the life of a freelance music creative and what “work for hire” means. You’ll also have the rare opportunity to share your work and receive feedback from industry professionals and decision-makers at ESPN.

At the end of the class, students will have created at least one finished piece to submit to ESPN for potential use in their programming. Students will also have been exposed to other career opportunities in composing and will have developed contacts to jumpstart their career.

Prerequisites for the course:

Previous experience in creating music in a Digital Audio Workstation or composition software (Garageband, Ableton, Pro Tools, Logic)
Considering composing for picture as a career
Willing to submit prior composition work via online application

Classes will be held on Tuesday nights from 5:30-7:30pm PST, and lab/work time will be held on the following Wednesday nights from 5:30-7:30pm PST.

All classes and labs will be held virtually over Zoom

* We invite people who identify as a woman/gender-diverse person and as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color to apply for this full scholarship opportunity to attend WAM's Composing for Film, TV, & Advertising class, and to help WAM meet its mission of diversifying the audio field.

This scholarship is supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission.

***NOTE: Attendees can receive refunds up to 7 days before your event start date.***

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About the Instructor:

With a passion for music and collaboration, Catherine Joy is a composer for film, media and live performance. She won Best Documentary Score for the uplifting feature documentary Gold Balls. Catherine scored the documentary Naughty Books (Hulu) which features narration by Aisha Tyler, Allison Tolman and Aimee Garcia, and resulted in an ASCAP Composers Choice Award nomination. Her latest narrative feature, Potato Dreams Of America had its world premiere at SXSW 2021, and is currently in theaters. She recently scored the documentary Prognosis: Notes on Living about the final journey of Oscar-winning social justice filmmaker Debra Chasnoff. Catherine was also the score producer and lead orchestrator on the Oscar-nominated score for Minari.

Most recently she scored the award-winning short doc animation series There's No 'I' In Island (Screen Australia). She then was awarded the New Music USA Reel Change grant for her score for documentary Women In The Front Seat, directed by Indy Saini. Catherine is the founder and CEO of Joy Music House, a full service score production company and the President for the Alliance for Women Film Composers. She also teaches film scoring for the NYU Steinhardt Masters program.

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Women's Audio Mission focuses on increasing the gender balance in audio production and technology sectors since less than 5% of the population employed in these sectors are women. There are limited spots available in our events and they often sell out, so we ask that if you are not woman-identified (transgender or cisgender), non-binary or gender non-conforming, that you reconsider registering. We will not turn anyone away, but please be mindful that if you take up a seat, that is one less woman or non binary-identified individual that we can serve. We thank you for your understanding in advance and for joining us in our mission to advance women and girls in music production and the recording arts.

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Composing for TV, Advertising, & Film