An excellent podcast about music composition by Nolan Schmit.
"The General" is a public domain silent film from 1927 featuring Buster Keaton. It's storyline is developed enough to make it a good pick for a silent film scoring project. Students will be able to apply the essential functions of film scoring and include Foley and perhaps some dialog as well.
"Wings" is a silent film and was the first movie to win an Oscar.
Excellent examples of the use of leitmotif in television shows, feature films, video games, etc.
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Video clips from the 2007 Young Film Composers Competition finalists.
Dialogue is in foreign language with English captions