PREMIERE: Tropscore Video Revealed For $5,000 Prize

Budding film composers around Australia can begin to plan their most creative film scores with APRA Tropscore returning to Tropfest in 2013, with the added Tropscore Jr competition for musicians 15 years and under.

Entrants to the adult Tropscore are asked to write the score to a pre-made film, The Exchange by Australian filmmaker Mike Bird, the perfect blank canvas about a child in an eery shop with a clown. TheMusic.com.au can exclusively premiere the clip this morning, check below!

There are no limits to the music genre and entrants can come from a variety of musical backgrounds.

The winner of Tropscore will receive $5000 from APRA, and the chance to perform or have your score performed in front of thousands of fans at Movie Extra Tropfest Australia live in Febuary. The winning score will be decided by a panel including Paul Mac, Clare Bowditch, Antony Partos (Animal Kingdom) and Andrew Lancaster (Accidents Happen with Gina Davis).

The competition will help budding composers break into the industry.

The Tropscore Jr competitors are asked to compose to a short film created by 2011's Trop Jr winner Simeon Bain, with the winner awarded a $2000 prize and stacks of experience composing for film.