Matthew Wang – Film & TV Scoring With A Virtual Orchestra

Learn everything you need to write, produce, and create music to picture. In this class, film & TV composer Matthew Wang teaches you his complete process for scoring with a virtual orchestra. It’s the same process he used to score Reno 911!

The Hunt For Qanon,Reno 911! It’s a Wonderful Heist, Centigrade, and many other films. Follow along as he creates an original score to a scene as he explains everything he is doing along the way.

Matthew Wang is an award-winning film and television composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York and Los Angeles. Merging his background in pop and electronic production with his field recording-centered approach to sound design, Wang creates inventive scores and soundscapes in which he strives to replicate human emotion through sound.

His versatility has led him to write music for shows including NBC’s New Amsterdam, NBC’s Young Rock, Showtime’s Yellowjackets, Netflix’s GLOW, as well as Shaquille O’Neal’s basketball animated short HeadNoise. He found his first feature film project in the IFC Midnight thriller, Centigrade (2020), which he co-composed with Trey Toy, and has gone on to score the television films, RENO! 911 It’s a Wonderful Heist (2022) and RENO! 911: The Hunt for QANON (2021), with Craig Wedren.

Aside from narrative work, the New York City-born artist also worked closely with documentarian Joseph Juhn on his set of acclaimed films, Jeronimo (2019) and Chosen (2022), which shed light on the unexpected and untold stories of the Korean diaspora.

In this class, Matthew Wang teaches you everything he knows about crafting a score to a scene using a virtual orchestra, helping you develop your full potential as a film composer and musical storyteller.

During class, Matthew brings you into his studio and shares his entire creative process from start to finish. Follow along with Matthew as he writes, produces, arranges, and mixes music for a scene from a film.

What You’ll Learn In Film & TV Scoring With A Virtual Orchestra

• Spotting a scene & figuring out how to best serve the story with music
• Using synthesizers to augment an orchestral arrangement
• Creating a “piano map” as a guide for orchestrating and producing your music
• Basic writing for strings, brass and woodwinds
• Using spatialization tricks to give a wider, fuller sound
• Arranging, mixing, and exporting a scored scene

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