Composition for Film and Television

Overview

If you have ever dreamed of scoring music for film and TV, this composition course will give you the expertise and confidence to achieve your goal.

It is one of the longest-established qualifications of its kind, attracting high-calibre musicians. You could join a growing list of alumni, including Matt Tong (formerly of Bloc Party), Grammy Award nominee Alexander Grant (aka Alex da Kid), Nile Rodgers collaborator Ben Salter, and Matthew Hodson, founder of the London Synthesis Orchestra.

This is a specialist Composition for Film and Television at the University of West London  in composing for film and television. You will need to have contextual knowledge of mainstream repertoire and significant experience of composition and orchestration. In return, the course gives you excellent opportunities to develop technical skills in composition and studio-based work.

You will study historical and current techniques used to create music for modern media. And you will look at ways to draw on these techniques in a practical context by composing music for a diverse range of genres, including: 

• television thrillers

• animations

• video game trailers

• science fiction

• dramatic cinema

• silent films

• costume dramas

• documentaries

• horrors.

Career

You might follow in the footsteps of our graduates who have achieved success working on a diverse range of projects for an impressive list of clients, including: 

• the BBC  

• The National Theatre 

• Youth Music Theatre UK 

• Projection Pictures 

• Sky 

• Channel 4 

• the British Film Institute.

Recent alumni successes include the creation of a major soundtrack score for the Imperial War Museum's authentic film footage from the First World War trenches and the critically acclaimed reconstruction and recording of film scores for Quo Vadis (Miklos Rosza) and Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre).