StretchLearn Course
Spot it, theme it, mock it up, and lock it to the frame — the real film-scoring workflow.
Course Overview
This course takes you through the real workflow of a film composer: watching a scene, spotting where music belongs, writing thematic material that supports the story, and producing a convincing orchestral mockup that locks to the edit. Every concept is tied to named tools, tempo math, and a worked cue you build yourself. You finish with a portfolio-ready scene scored from spotting session to final bounce.
Learning Outcomes
Run a spotting session and mark accurate music in/out points against timecode
Compose a leitmotif and develop it through transposition, reharmonization, and orchestration
Build a tempo map that lands hits on key picture cuts using markers and the bars-and-beats grid
Produce an orchestral mockup with articulations, keyswitches, and convincing MIDI performance
Read and decode a temp track to extract intent without copying it
Deliver a synced, balanced cue and export stems against picture
Curriculum Preview
Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.
Before a note is written, the score is decided in conversation and in the spotting session. This module covers what film music is for and how professionals mark where it goes.
The compositional core: writing memorable themes and developing them so the score has architecture rather than a string of unrelated cues.
Turning written ideas into a convincing orchestral recording inside software, the skill that lets one person deliver a full score.
The technical discipline of locking music to the edit, reading the temp track, and delivering professional files.
Built for Application
This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.