Score Like a Director: Composing Original AI Music for Film and Video - Softcover

GUPTA, ADITYA

9798178048320: Score Like a Director: Composing Original AI Music for Film and Video

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ISBN 13: 9798178048320

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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Score Like a Director

Mute the shower scene from Psycho and it stops being frightening. Nothing about the picture changes — only the music disappears, and with it, the terror. That's the entire argument of Score Like a Director: music doesn't accompany your film. It directs how your audience feels, arriving a fraction of a second before their eyes catch up.

This volume in the AI Content Creation Mastery Series teaches you to compose original AI music the way a professional film composer thinks — not by describing a mood once and accepting whatever comes back, but by directing tempo, key, tension, and silence on purpose.

Across 9 chapters, you'll learn to:

Answer the three questions every scene's score must satisfy before you generate a single note
Build leitmotifs and character themes specific enough to mean something the third time your audience hears them
Control emotional register directly using four precise, adjustable levers
Underscore dialogue without ever burying a single word
Score genre-literate cues for horror, romance, action, and drama — and know when to break the rules
Mix original AI score with licensed music and sound design without them fighting each other
Build a repeatable scoring pipeline that scales to a full series
Diagnose and fix common AI music failures instead of regenerating blindly
Understand licensing basics and price your work like a professional composer

Includes worked examples, templates, checklists, and a glossary/FAQ appendix for quick reference.

For AI filmmakers ready to stop treating music as decoration and start directing it.

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