Score It

Queensland’s leading high school film scoring competition

Score It is an exciting, collaborative opportunity for young budding composers across Queensland, to compose and submit a score to an existing short animation created by Griffith Film School students. This Open Conservatorium initiative allows young composers to experience writing, orchestrating and arranging for films.

Music teachers and students throughout Queensland can engage with this activity in different ways.  We’ve mapped requirements to the Year 11 and 12 QCAA high school curriculum for music, so teachers can embed Score It into their curriculum and use this opportunity as an assessment piece. Otherwise, it can be part of an extension activity or it can just be something fun for students to do outside of class.

Beyond the learning opportunities associated with engaging in this activity, students with well-developed scores may wish to submit their work in the annual Score It competition (with their teacher's endorsement). Students wishing to submit a score for competition will need to have written endorsement from their music teacher, confirming that the score is complete and meets the submission requirements.

All entries receive feedback from Conservatorium academics and students, and selected scores receive a live performance with film by a Conservatorium ensemble. On 28 August 2024, 7.30 pm in the Ian Hanger Recital Hall, we will have a bespoke evening event at the Conservatorium featuring scores written for an 18-piece chamber orchestra to be performed with film. Tickets for this event are available via QTIX.

Submissions for the 2024 ScoreIt competition have now closed.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Professor Peter Morris: peter.morris@griffith.edu.au