One of the top film scoring programs in the world, the Film Scoring Certificate gives students opportunities to score cues for films, television shows, and video games. Instruction emphasizes maximizing a project's budget by composing music both electronically using MIDI and using professional musicians. Students learn the essential creative, business and technical skills needed for a successful career in film scoring. By the program end, participants have composed and produced many pieces suitable for their professional reels.
Requirements
Students must complete a total of 12 courses (48 units) for the award. 11 courses (44 units) are required and the remaining 1 elective (4 units) is comprised of other courses numbered X 400-499 in Film Scoring, Music Production or Music Business. New electives are added regularly.
A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 must be achieved for successful completion of the certificate program.
Prerequisites
Students who wish to take courses in the Film Scoring certificate program should have a basic musical background and should possess the following skills before beginning any coursework:
- Ability to read music: the musical staff and clefs, notes in both treble and bass clef, notes on the piano keyboard, accidentals, rhythmic values (i.e. whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, dotted values, etc.), simple and compound meters
- Music Theory Fundamentals: major scales, all forms of minor scales (i.e. natural, harmonic, melodic), major and minor key signatures, the circle of fifths, intervals and interval inversions, interval qualities (i.e. perfect, major, minor, diminished, augmented), chord qualities and inversion symbols, triads (major, minor, diminished, augmented), seventh chords (i.e. dominant sevenths, half diminished, full diminished, etc.)
The following course should be completed within the first 2 quarters of study:
- MUSC X 483.43 Instrumentation and Introduction to Orchestration
The following course should be taken in the last quarter of the program:
- MUSC X 498 Advanced Film Scoring Workshop
For course scheduling information and quarter by quarter enrollment recommendations, please visit the Entertainment Studies website: entertainment.uclaextension.edu/certificates/film-scoring
Contact
Drew Conrad
(310) 825-9064
entertainmentstudies@uclaextension.edu
Estimated Cost
Application & Candidacy Fee: $200.00*
Estimated Program Tuition: $14,750.00
Estimated Program Textbook/Materials: $550.00**
Estimated Total Cost: $15,500.00
*This program is open admission. The Application & Candidacy fee establishes your candidacy in the certificate for a period of time covering normal progress toward completion and allows you to access a variety of program benefits.
**Estimated Textbook/Materials costs do not include access to a sequencing workstation in which audio can be recorded and synched to video (a sequencing workstation is software that combines audio and MIDI recording, editing, and a variety of other tools for working with music and sound on a computer). Computer hardware and software is available at a discount for UCLA Extension certificate students at the UCLA Store.
Details
Domestic students may begin the program in any quarter. F-1 Visa students are only eligible for entry in the summer or winter.
Estimated Duration (Full-Time pace): 4 quarters
Estimated Duration (Half-Time pace): Up to 12 quarters
Internships Available: Yes