Video Game & Media Composition (Taught)

As a composer, you will find more work by being flexible and, as the game industry grows, you’ll find more projects that are able to compete with the blockbuster movie industry. This course equips you with the creative and technical skills to tackle a wide range of film and television projects from feature films to animation, as well as teaching you the technical and creative skills needed to succeed in the rapidly expanding world of video game music.

During this comprehensive Master of Fine Arts degree course, you will cover the skills taught in both our MA Composing for Video Games and MA Professional Media Composition degree courses.

Preparing you for the career you deserve
Video games are now a huge sector in the entertainment industry, closely followed by film and television. This course addresses the core composition skills needed to compete in any industry whilst giving you comprehensive training needed to work at a professional level in both video games and linear media music.

On this course, you will learn:

• To write linear music for feature films, television, animation, as well as game cutscenes and cinematics.

• To write dynamic music for video games required for interactive gameplay driven by the player’s choices

• To produce professional quality demos and sampled mockups

• Collaborative and remote working skills, which are vital in such a connected global industry.

• To use Wwise to implement your music interactively in fully functional Unity games, many specially designed or licenced for the course - including commercial releases.

• The technical aspects of writing to picture, including spotting the film, working with hit points and markers, and responding to feedback by professional composers.