Creative Music and Sound Design for Visual Media Scoring Université Côte d'Azur

Overview

The  Creative Music and Sound Design for Visual Media Scoring MSc degree from Université Côte d'Azur will equip you with the skills to master the entire music production process, from musical composing to post-production, in the music-for-media landscape:  film, advertising, television series, video games, and so forth.

You will hone your skills in composition, orchestration, sound design, creative management, artistic entrepreneurship and finally post-production on the Dolby Atmos spatial sound system, with the benefit of a partnership with DOLBY. At the end of each year, you will have the opportunity to record your own creation with a full orchestra, thanks to a unique partnership with the prestigious Orchestre National de Cannes, recognized as a National Orchestra in 2022.

This program will be conducted at our new Georges Méliès campus in Cannes, a creative campus with a 50m2 sound studio, a large 250m2 stage, and a fully equipped IT room partnered by Native Instruments and Izotope.

Enhanced by a partnership with Dolby, our master classes allow you to edit and produce your own creations with Dolby Atmos, in a complete Dolby-certified mixing studio provided by Fondation Université Côte d'Azur. At the end of the program, you will obtain not only a Master of Science diploma, but also a professional DOLBY certification.

Highlights

The MSc Creative Music and Sound Design for Visual Media Scoring is worth 120 ECTS, and is conducted over two years at our unique Bastide Rouge Campus in Cannes, France. Each year is built around hands-on projects, and culminates with presenting your own 5+ minute musical composition performed by a live orchestra.  

As a student, you will benefit from our state-of-the-art campus offerings:  onsite business spaces dedicated to cultural and creative industries, video game diploma courses, and art schools. 

Our curriculum is based on a common core including digital projects, and bringing together students from other disciplines such as creative arts, script writing, and videogames.  This provides key employment prospects in the world of creative output:  artificial intelligence and media, arts and entrepreneurship, creative audiovisual project management, image privacy law, and intellectual property law.