The cinematic composer’s journey is a video on demand online course series that takes you on the journey of cinematic composition – with standalone modules you can join at any stage. Whether you’re a total beginner (music production essentials), just starting with cinematic orchestral composing (cinematic orchestration), or looking to refine your mockups (tba), you’ll learn, explore your creativity, and create something you’ll be proud to share. 😊
Leo Brennauer is a musician and composer from Germany. He studied composition for film, theatre, and media at the Zurich University of Arts and is currently working as a YouTube content creator.
ThinkSpace Education delivers online courses and postgraduate degrees designed for composers who want to develop real-world skills for film, TV, and video games. Founded by film composer Guy Michelmore, our programmes are taught by professionals actively working in the industry, bringing practical knowledge straight from current productions.
Short courses and bootcamps focus on hands-on learning, with projects based on real scoring workflows such as writing to picture and responding to professional briefs. Bootcamps include personalised feedback from industry composers to help you improve quickly and refine your craft.
For those looking to study more deeply, ThinkSpace's accredited Master's degrees (validated by Arts University Bournemouth) offer structured training, one-to-one mentoring, and detailed feedback from professional tutors with credits across major films, television, games, and albums.
Guy Michelmore is a multi award-winning film, games and television composer whose clients include Marvel, Disney, Dreamworks, Lionsgate and dozens of major TV networks around the world. He's best known for his work with Marvel on eight animated feature films including Ultimate Avengers and Thor, as well as hundreds of episodes of television. Guy hosts a YouTube channel focusing on composition training and media scoring, and has built a community of over 400,000 subscribers.
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Orchestration Recipes
brings your libraries to life with step-by-step orchestrations you can follow, adapt, and make your own.
You bring your own melodic and harmonic ideas. The recipes take care of the orchestration.
Blocks:
Classic orchestrations, ready for your sketches (volume 6)
Blocks are orchestrations extracted from the scores of master composers-made legible, made learnable, ready to use in your own scoring. A practical foundation for anyone who orchestrates... use what already works in concert halls.
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Spices:
Harmonic thinking that adds cinematic magic (Volumes 3-5)
Manipulate emotions. Summon worlds. Create sounds that are simply out of reach with conventional major/minor harmony. Spices are 14 techniques for film, TV and game composing, unpacked with dozens of orchestrated examples, across 8 hours of narrated walkthroughs.
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Scenes:
Combinations for cinematic storytelling volumes 1&2)
The first two Orchestration Recipes volumes contain dedicated recipes for scenes and moods, from battle preparations to sympathy card moments. Every recipe lays out the steps and the thinking behind
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Philip Johnston is one of music education's best-selling authors, known for presenting complex ideas in simple, engaging formats. Classically trained, he holds a Master's Degree in Music from Indiana University and has recorded for Warner Music as a pianist and composer. Philip has been working with orchestral sample libraries since the Gigastudio days, and composed demo tracks for one of VSL's very first sample libraries back in 2003, using a computer with worse specs than some modern toasters. It's about the recipes, not the gear.