An opportunity to get an orchestra score for your film:

An opportunity to get an orchestra score for your 3rd Year film: 

Composer Joshua Denenberg has a chance for a professional orchestra to record a film score free of charge as part of a competition. But he needs a short animation (less than two minutes) in relatively finished form on short notice. If you're interested, contact him asap at j.denenberg42@gmail.com

Online Music Resources

I get regular inquiries from students regarding internet sites that offer free or cheap-to-license music for use in your films. Here are a few which have been useful in the past couple of years. I list them roughly in order of preference. 

PS - Please let me know if any of these links have gone dead since I put this list together last year. 

Jamendo - Jamendo has a LOT of free stuff. Try it first.

Vimeo Music Store - mostly commercial ($99 for a festival license) but also has free (Creative Commons Share-Alike License)

SoundCloud - online file locker for audio. Nice player software, and many items licensable for the asking. 

Overview | Music | Musopen - recent site with only copyright-free material. Mostly old recordings and/or government produced. 

With Etiquette - collective of alternative musicians who make their music available for low license fee. 

‎songfreedom.com - commercial stock music site

UniqueTracks Inc. - commercial stock music site, good selection, low rates ($40)

Royalty Free Music Library from premiumbeat.com - commercial stock music site

Stock Music - Royalty Free Music with an Edge - commercial stock music site

Of course, there is also the Cyclops server, where Mario and Rick Andersen maintain a library of approximately 10,000 titles of stick music, for which the college pays a flat fee each year on your behalf. 

Last but not least, there is also the world's biggest recorded music store, iTunes. While it's not always easy to license music found here, it's a fantastic resource for searching and experimenting with musical ideas. With 37,000,000 titles free to audition and available for download at about $1 per track (and no DRM!), there's no reason not to find music suitable for your temp-track. 

Animation Project Scoring - Sergei Kofman

Here is an offer for animation music scoring from Sergei Kofman, a music student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. You can check out his work via the links in his email below and you can contact him at   kofm8390 (at) mylaurier.ca 

Here is a link to the 4th Year Animation project he did last year: https://vimeo.com/162987868

And here is his demo reel: https://soundcloud.com/sergei-l-kofman/sets/demo-reel/s-NEBI4 

Feel free to contact him with any inquiries. 

This Week in 4th Year Animation: Script, Colour and Design

LECTURE: Colour, Concept and History - Tim McCormick  (S235, 11 AM Wednesday )

Tim's talk will discuss alternative creative processes and workflows for animated film
with a focus on colour and visual design. Tim shows how art-historical
influences shaped his short animated landscape After-Effects MA film, leading to
an exploration of how landscapes of the past influence and colour so much concept
art in film today, both animated and live action, with an emphasis on the 'epic.'
Tim will finish with some strategies to develop colour and mood, colour scripts and a
better feel for colour harmonies.

WORKSHOP: Character Design Critique - Enzo Avolio
Note that the workshop will NOT take place at the usual time but on  Thursday October 6 at 10 AM in in Lab A151.

Our own Enzo Avolio will lead a character design workshop for us this week. Bring your current work-in-progress character designs to discuss with Enzo and others.

Although design work (character or otherwise) is not specifically graded in the fourth year Milestones, it is an important part of the pre-production process and the Senior Film Project mentors support your design efforts with workshops like this.  Below is an example of some of Enzo's character design work, from the Character Design Blogspot at:   http://enzo-avolio-interview.blogspot.ca

MILESTONE DUE: FINISHED STORYBOARDS & SCRIPT

As noted last week there are several examples of excellent storyboards and scripts from previous BAA students available on this page:
http://sheridan4thyear.blogspot.ca/p/milestone-examples.htmlhttp://sheridan4thyear.blogspot.ca/p/milestone-examples.html