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Composing for Film: Making music based on a story

Making music for a film means making a musical interpretation of a story. Knowing cinematic storytelling is the key to make music that has the desired effect to a scene.

I’ve created this course to offer a guideline how to look at music in a film from a dramaturgical point of view: when something happens in the story, how can the music react to that? What kind of different options are there: for example, focusing on the character, the atmosphere, or making a link to the outside world?

These individual lessons are for musicians and artists interested in expanding their own music-making to a more dramaturgical direction – whether you're a professional musician or making music as a hobby. You’ll learn how to make artistic choices and decisions that feel true to you, and improve your skills to create an emotional connection between the image and the music.

The assignments are based on the student’s own music-making. We will be analysing scripts, scenes, and make music for them. We will think about the qualities of instrumentations and what effect certain choices of sounds can make.

Extra information

You will need your own music-making equipment: whether it was just an instrument and a microphone, or a full DAW. We can also look at a good solution for you on class.

Location

Online via webcam

General info

Age:
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level:
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Duration:
45 minutes
The class is taught in:English, Finnish, Dutch

About Me

I’m a Finnish film composer based in Amsterdam. I graduated as a film composer from the University of the Arts Amsterdam in 2023. Previously, I hold a master’s degree in musicology from the University of Tampere, Finland. I worked as a musicologist and music journalist during 2015–2021 before pursuing a career as a film composer.

My focus as a teacher is in communication and giving space for the student to explore the film from a musical perspective: how does the image sound like to you? As a person I’m calm, open, facultative, and interested in the student’s own creative inner world.

Education

Master's Degree in Composing for Film, Conservatory of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2021–2023.
Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Ethnomusicology, University of Tampere, Finland, 2010–2016.

Experience / Qualifications

I have years long experience working with musicians in film projects as well as in my own compositions and projects. My own instruments are violin and singing, and in addition I play ukulele, banjo and piano. I also write stories and music for invisible films, a video art concept I've created. Two previous invisible films have been performed in Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Helsinki, and I'm currently working on the third one.

My film music master’s thesis, “It’s not my music, it’s the film’s music”, was about collaboration in the making of film music. My musicology master’s thesis, “Accessible remote concert and new definitions of concert institution”, focused on the experience of an online concert. Both of my these thesis’ were nominated in the category of the best master’s thesis of the year in the University of the Arts Amsterdam in 2023, and in the University of Tampere in 2016. In 2024, I was awarded with the New Talent -prize in the Music in Media Awards for the music in the documentary Black Joy (2023, dir. Rafik Opti).

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