We Shoot, We Score: Film Score Composing with Rae Spoon

LSPU Hall, Cox & Palmer Second Space

$20 regular, $15 students/seniors

Canadian musician, author and score composer Rae Spoon invites us to join them learn about how to compose for film, how to talk to a director/how to talk to a composer, the scoring process, and how to work with music to further convey the story of your film. Guest local musicians Alison Corbett, Matthew Thompson, Mark Bragg and Joanna Barker will share their work as they score the same short scene from the feature-documentary My Prairie Home. How will they compare to the final cut, and what will their challenges and advice be?

Rae Spoon is a transgender musician, author, and the subject of the National Film Board musical documentary My Prairie Home, with their 2013 album of the same name serving as the score and soundtrack to the film. The film is an official selection for Sundance 2014 and is nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Documentary. Rae has composed the scores for a number of other film and television productions including Trans Parents Documentary (2014), Deadman (2010) and A Bold Effort Mkultra (2009). They have toured extensively in Canada as well as internationally and have been nominated for The Polaris Music Prize, CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards, and the Galaxy Rising Star Award. Rae’s first book, First Spring Grass Fire, was published in September 2012.

To read our artists bios, please visit www.womensfilmfestival.com/scene-heard/we-shoot-we-score/