As part of the Ascap Film scoring Workshop 2005, each of the 15 participants were asked to compose music to a 3 minute film fragment, selected randomly from 5 clips. They had around a week to compose, orchestrate and score their piece which they then recorded with a 40 piece LA session orchestra at the Fox Newman stage.

Notes:

After having the good fortunate of being selected from 300 applicants, I spent a month in LA participating in this amazing workshop, which included lessons from Bruce Broughton, Michael Giacchino, John Rodd and James Newton Howard. A fantastic experience that taught me a lot about scoring to picture and the technicalities behind it.

The final scoring assignment would mark the first time I had to conduct my own music, which was entertaining and scary at the same time. I managed to create a fun piece though that mickey mouse'd Jackie Chan's on-screen antics to good effect despite my uncoordinated flapping of the baton.

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