Submission Page
For those wishing to enter the Score It competition, please find specific details below on instrumentation, score preparation, audio/video requirements and music teacher endorsement.
Each application is judged by our expert panel of film and music professionals from the Griffith University community.
Finalists will receive workshops by Queensland Conservatorium academics and students, with the winning compositions to be performed by a chamber orchestra in bespoke evening event at the Conservatorium on November 6, 2025.
Unfortunately, we will not be including a video game trailer for the 2022 event, however this will commence in 2023.
Step one: Create your score
Review the source material: 2025 Animations from Griffith Film School students.
The instrumentation listed below is the maximum students can write for. Students are allowed to write for a smaller subset of this if they wish.
Scores selected for live performance will need to have a click-track provided by the composer, so keep this in mind!
18-piece Orchestra instrumentation
Woodwinds
- 1 Flute
- 1 Oboe
- 1 Clarinet (in Bb)
- 1 Bassoon
Brass
- 1 Horn (in F)
- 1 Trumpet (in Bb)
- 1 Trombone
- 1 Tuba
Percussion (2 players)
- Timpani (x4), Glockenspiel
- Drum Kit, Standard Auxiliary percussion
Strings
- 2 violin 1
- 2 violin 2
- 1 viola
- 1 cello
- 1 double bass
Optional
- Piano/Keyboard
- Classical Guitar
Step two: Submit your score
The submission form will be available from this site on Monday, 31 March 2025 and it will remain open until the deadline of Friday, 20 June 2025. Submissions will require scores and video files with a midi audio soundtrack to be uploaded.
Parts are not required to be extracted, and there is no requirement for a click track in the audio file at the initial submission stage.
Teacher endorsement
To ensure that schools and teachers are aware that a student will be representing the school in this event, we are asking that teachers endorse any student submissions. Teachers will need to confirm that the score is complete and meets the submission requirements. We'd also ask teachers to consider whether the student will be able to incorporate the feedback given, and export a score and parts in a timely fashion (with or without your help).
There are two ways for teachers to endorse a student’s submission:
- teachers can write a quick email to the student endorsing their submission, and the student can copy or screenshot that email and include it in their submission form (complete with date, teacher email address, etc)
- teachers can do the online submission on the student’s behalf and make a note of this in the submission form.
Submission components
- Online submission form completed
- PDF Conductor’s Score
- Mp4 video file with Midi audio export of the score embedded
Technical Specifications
It is very important that the video files do not change frame-rate settings when imported into and back out of your DAW or notation software. Incorrect settings can ruin the synchronisation of your score with the image, so please ensure you follow the instructions here:
- When working with video files in composition software such as Sibelius, ensure that your timecode settings match the video that has been provided.
- In this case, Griffith Film School has supplied videos in 1920x1080 resolution, 25 fps frame rate (no drop frame) with start timecode 00:00:00:00.
- Checking these settings are correct before starting to compose will allow your score to play back correctly and in sync.
Notification of Selected Scores
Although it will be difficult, the judging panel will find a way to select one favourite score for each animation trailer.
Those selected composers will then have a chance to be workshopped by Conservatorium students, alumni and academics in early Term 3 before submitting the final score and parts by late August.
Interest
Express your interest in this competition, or future Score It competitions