SUNDAY JANUARY 15th, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m., BORREGO SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

As an independent filmmaker, you may have gone through music scoring numerous times, or perhaps you’re new to the process. Either way, we’re “hear” to offer valuable insight!

This workshop will showcase music creation from a micro-budget short. This 2022 film went through financially challenging, but ultimately successful, musical production. The score and film have won numerous festival awards.

Join us for a collaboration with freelance virtual orchestra composer, Stephen Bennett as he shows you techniques to coordinate your vision with a composer’s musical creativity.

He’ll cover it all, from the director’s temporary music in the edit as the starting point, to the musical “spotting” process, to the rough piano sketch, to notes, to revisions, to hearing the initial orchestrated version, and then finally listening to the lush and elegant clip that makes it into the final cut.

This panel is designed to help attending filmmakers hone their craft, but it’s also insightful for the general public as well. Anyone that’s interested in learning is free to attend this fun and informative event.

This panel will be followed with a screening of the example film presented in the workshop, “A Gift For All Ages.”

Stephen Bennett is a Los Angeles based composer from Slidell, Louisiana. Soon after moving to Los Angeles he was selected to participate in the Society of Composers and Lyricists 2018 Mentorship program. In 2019 he was a finalist for the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop and was selected to participate in the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive (created by David Newman) under the tutelage of Angel Velez, Conrad Pope, and William Ross. Some of his work includes scoring the films A Gift For All Ages, They Never See It Coming, Wildlands, and Sign Here as well as additional music for the MSNBC documentary Loan Wolves. He currently assists ASCAP award winning composer, Didier Lean Rachou (Sex and the City, Gold Rush, Deadliest Catch). Stephen received a bachelor of music in music theory and composition from the University of Louisiana at Monroe under Dr. Mel Mobley and was also a member of the ULM guitar ensemble under the direction of Daniel Sumner. He has had music used on CBS, ABC, TLC, Netflix, and The History Channel.