Overview

During this Video Game Composition and Orchestration programme of ThinkSpace Education, you will cover the skills taught in both our Composing for Video Games and Orchestration for Films, Games, and Television degree courses.

Key facts:

Video Game Composition and Orchestration is an advanced degree that prepares you to write technically demanding, interactive music that you will learn to implement in the game using industry standard middleware such as FMOD and Wwise. You will learn to realise your scores as both professional grade sampled mock-ups and prepare them for live orchestra. You will learn to write for live players, prepare scores for a variety of applications and correctly manage Pro Tools sessions.

On this course, you will learn:

• How to work in an adaptive and interactive genre, tackling challenges unique to video games.
• To orchestrate awe-inspiring live and sampled orchestral game music.
• To produce professional-quality scores using Sibelius or Finale and record-ready Pro Tools sessions.
• What the market expects, what producers and directors are buying right now, and how to deliver market-focused music.
• About each section of the orchestra, taught by some of the world’s top film music session players.
• How to use FMOD to implement your music and sound design interactively in fully functional Unity games, many specially licenced for the course, including commercial releases.