Seated behind a digital mixer, production director Brian King walks students through an audio editing assignment that involves remixing a cue.
Music can say things on a subliminal level.
What you can't do with a camera or dialogue, music has a way of taking care of. It gets at the deeper emotions that aren't always expressible on film. This is the headquarters of the Thornton School's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program, where the art of making aural movie-magic is imparted by the industry's masters to their apprentices. Among them are a few under-graduates looking to specialize early and a few doctoral composition students pursuing a minor. Nor is it an academic program, despite courses in film music history and criticism.