Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

People - Scoring for Film and Multimedia

Film Scoring Students

Discussions and Demos
- Howard Shore on his score for Lord of the Rings
- State of the Art: Post-Production at Sound One 
On a recent Thursday evening and Friday afternoon, our film scoring majors were invited to two remarkable roundtables and discussions featuring Howard Shore and three key post-practitioners in the industry.  On Thursday evening, an intimate audience at the Paley Media center were privy to a remarkable and insightful interview with Howard Shore, on his score for Lord of The Rings.  In the lengthy question and answer period following, our students posed eloquent and probing questions which enhanced an evening that already served as a rare window into the compositional process.
On Friday afternoon, Michael Barry, one of the most renowned re-recording mixers (Men in Black, Fargo) in the feature film industry, invited twenty students for a two-hour private presentation in the main studio of 'Sound One,' in the Brill Building.  In tandem with score recordings/mixer Lawrence Manchester (Howard Shore's recording engineer and Steinhardt Music Tech graduate) and the venerable Music Editor Gedney Webb, they screened film clips, provided demonstrations, and walked students through the plethora of their creative post-production tasks.  This provided an intimate and detailed perspective that revealed some of the collaborative processes that undergird post-production processes and inform a film's final sound mix.  It was eye-opening and it was witnessed under pristine conditions.  In the course of the afternoon, Barry, Manchester, and Webb fielded an array of student's questions.  One of our students commented:
"That was the most relevant and applicable 'extra-curricular' event I've attended at NYU.  All three guys were so interesting and intelligent and helpful."

 

Selected Student Bios

  • Rafael Leloup
  • George Oakley
  • Owen Wang
  • Lydia Ainsworth
  • Jacob Yoffee

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