Youngsters get chance to compose film soundtrack
YOUNG people from across Leicestershire are getting the chance to compose the soundtrack to a new short film about Leicester, Leicestershire and the people who live here.
Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service (LSMS) and Royal Birmingham
Conservatoire have teamed up to launch the competition – entitled ‘Soundtrack to Leicestershire’ – which is aimed at encouraging pupils aged 12 to 18 to get creative.
The competition will be judged by acclaimed composer Segun Akinola, an English composer for television and documentaries.
Pupils are being given the simple brief to create a soundtrack for a short film which has been created by LSMS using both images of the people and places of Leicestershire, and including images sent in as part of Leicestershire County Council’s Community Curators’ ‘Covid-19 Isolated, but Inspired’ project.
The soundtrack can be in any style or genre and can use any sounds or instruments including live instruments, virtual plug-ins, noise, voice, beats, lyrics, found sounds or whatever else entrants want to use.
The top three entries will win a two-hour online masterclass with Segun Akinola. The top five entries will also win Dorico Pro music software, worth £480. Winners
will also have their soundtrack streamed by LSMS.
Entrants have to aged between 12 and 18, as of Monday, June 1, 2020, and must live in Leicester or Leicestershire.
No copyrighted material can be used to compose the track. The deadline for entries is noon on Monday, June 29, 2020.
For more details or to enter the competition visit: www.bit.ly/ LSMSRCBComp
Further information on LSMS is available here: www.leicestershiremusichub.org