MA Orchestration for Film, Games & Television
$13650
Part Time - 24 Months (15 hours/week)
Part Time - 36 Months (8 hours/week)
Students on this course go on to work as a film and games composer, composer’s assistant, additional music composer, orchestrator or copyist. If you are already a working composer, this course opens up a wider range of work involving live orchestra and professional grade sampled mock-ups. If you’re looking to start a career, then by graduation you will be ready to tackle real-world composition projects involving both sampled and live orchestra.
On this course, you will learn:
- To create and orchestrate awe-inspiring live and sampled orchestral film and games music.
- Contemporary commercial standard practice where the emphasis is always on speed and efficiency.
- How to work with sampled instruments, technical skills involving creating and balancing your template, instrument placement, use of reverb, and using controllers to enhance realism and orchestral mixing.
- How to produce professional-quality scores using Sibelius or Finale and record-ready Pro Tools sessions.
- To write to picture using live and sampled orchestral resources. Your optional film scoring assignments will be drawn from real-world film and video game projects.
- How to arrange for different sized orchestral ensembles.
- The research and critical thinking skills to help you put media music in context.
Having my home studio be my main studio is just one of the top things that ThinkSpace provided me with.
I loved my course: there is just so much information packed into each module.
Teaching Staff
Our tutors are all current working professionals, many involved at the highest level in the business.
The tutors who will be giving you individual feedback, either in writing or at the student workshops, have composing and orchestration credits including:
- Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
- Iron Man Armoured Adventures
- Die Hard 4
- Angry Birds
- Pokémon Movies
- Robot Chicken
- Batman: Arkham Origins and hundreds more.
They’ve worked for every major film and game studio and networks and production companies including Disney, Dreamworks, Marvel, Universal, Warner Bros, Sky, BBC, ITV, NBC, ABC and many others.
Student Stories
Our recent students have gone on to work at Mojang, Creative Assembly, Frontier, Dam Busters and many more. Our graduates have worked on the score for Spiderman PS4 and scored the latest Battlefield 1 Apocalypse trailer.
Full Time - 12 Months (30 hours/week)
Part Time - 24 Months (15 hours/week)
Part Time - 36 Months (8 hours/week)
Finance
Students will be required to pay a deposit on enrolling. For more information on this, visit the Student Finance page.
postgraduate@thinkspaceeducation.com
To find out more about the application process, visit the Applications page.
Live Sessions
The Orchestral Session
Live Instrumental Sessions
Frequently Asked Questions
That’s how most of our future students start: an informal conversation about where you are and where you want to be. No pressure, just getting to know you and how we might be able to help.
Get in touch with Tim Johnson the course manager (and film composer).