Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV

Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV
Author: Robin Frederick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2010
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780982004029

Tens of thousands of songs are needed each year for TV, movies, and commercials. The songwriting techniques and marketing tips in this guide show how to craft music and lyrics to give the industry what it needs, make broadcast quality recordings, and pitch songs.

Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting

Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting
Author: Robin Frederick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780982004005

Discover the melody and lyric writing techniques of today's top songwriters. Learn why their songs are so successful. The book features 38 proven strategies for creating powerful lyrics, 30 simple ways to make your melody fresh, exciting and memorable, using hit songs as "ghost songs" to get quick results, plus 58 more Shortcuts to help you lay the groundwork, choose the perfect structure, and pick the chords to give your songs even more hit potential.

Song Starters

Song Starters
Author: Robin Frederick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-10-15
Genre: Lyric writing (Popular music)
ISBN: 9780965478939

With Song Starters, you'll spend more time creating and less time struggling to come up with ideas. Discover an endless supply of exciting, creative concepts that will launch song after song. Use the Starters to spark a brainstorm or set a series of notes in motion, get your feet dancing or fill your head with music. Listen to hit song examples as you work. All of the Starters are based on time-tested concepts used by hit songwriters, but you make them your own. 365 ways to fuel your songwriting creativity: - 183 lyric situations, characters, emotions, and title ideas - 45 ways to easily create music tracks to write to - 42 melody patterns, phrase ideas, and note rhythms - 17 contemporary chord progressions - 22 ways to rewrite a song using Song Starters ...plus a grab bag of 56 assorted whimsical, stimulating, inspiring launch pads for lyrics, melodies, and chords that will let you free your muse and write from your heart. With Song Starters, you'll never have to face another blank page.

Hey! That’s My Song!

Hey! That’s My Song!
Author: Tracey Marino
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1493061127

Songwriters/composers/producers Tracey and Vance Marino have been wildly successful placing their more than three thousand music compositions in various media. They are signed with over sixty different production music libraries and music publishers, and their music is heard daily across the globe. This guide brings together—in one book—all you need to know about writing, recording, marketing, and monetizing your music. Getting placements in film, TV, and media is not only about writing good music, it's about writing placeable music. And, after you have written placeable music, what do you do with it? Where do you find the decision-makers? How do you get all the money to which you are entitled? This book delivers the answers. You will discover… The most important quality a piece of music should have to be licensed Tips about crafting music specifically for sync The tools and knowledge needed to create broadcast-quality recordings Where to find the people and companies that can place your music How to present and market your music Why networking and following up with contacts are among the keys to success The pros and cons of working solo or as part of a team The importance of being professional while interacting with other people How being organized and using metadata effectively will get you paid Having music placed in various media is an extraordinarily financially lucrative area of the music business. And the Marinos are willing now to share their tips, secrets, and the steps to follow in order to succeed in the sync world.

Pitching Hollywood

Pitching Hollywood
Author: Jonathan Koch
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1610350952

Two successful movie and TV producers provide the reader with the tools needed to create, develop, and sell ideas to Hollywood. Producers Jonathan Koch (""Beyond the Glory"") and Robert Kosberg (Deep Blue Sea) are known as the ""Kings of Pitch."" They currently have more than a dozen projects in development at major studios, including projects with Josh Lucas, Tobey Maguire, and Katherine Heigl.

Silver Screens

Silver Screens
Author: Larry Widen
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2007
Genre: Motion picture theaters
ISBN: 0870203681

Silver Screens traces the rich history of Milwaukee's movie theaters, from 1890s nickelodeons to the grand palaces of the Roaring Twenties to the shopping mall outlets of today. But the story doesn't end there: in the past two decades, growing interest in restoring theaters has confirmed that there's still life in these beloved structures. With the publication of Silver Screens, authors Larry Widen and Judi Anderson help ensure that our old theaters - both those being preserved and those long since vanished from the landscape - will remain forever embedded in our collective memory.

The Craft and Business of Songwriting

The Craft and Business of Songwriting
Author: John Braheny
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-04-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780898796537

Music is a universal language, and John Braheny speaks it eloquently as he helps prepare us for our big musical break--by teaching us the craft of songwriting and revealing secrets of the music business. Includes anecdotes, exercises, and examples from dozens of songwriters, such as Harry Chapin, Paul McCartney, and many others.

CONFLICT - The Insiders' Guide to Storytelling in Factual/Reality TV & Film

CONFLICT - The Insiders' Guide to Storytelling in Factual/Reality TV & Film
Author: Robert Thirkell
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1408145391

"The recipe book of great television from one of the best TV makers in the world" Jamie Oliver Story structure is a huge weakness for many factual or reality filmmakers and TV producers, who often concentrate on subject areas and issues rather than dramatic and memorable narrative. Consequently programmes fail to attract the audience or win any awards. In this book Robert Thirkell, the international consultant known as 'The TV Troubleshooter' and renowned television producer, sets out a professional toolkit for developing a compelling storyline in factual and reality programmes and films. Based on his popular international C.O.N.F.L.I.C.T seminars, it lifts the lids on the making of leading series such as Kitchen Nightmares, Wife Swap, The Apprentice, Coastguards, Firefighters, Oprah's Big Give Fat March, Jamie's School Dinners and When Big Chef Met Little Chef as well as offering insight and advice from leading filmmakers and TV producers worldwide. The tips and tools go right the way through the filmmaking process from finding stories and characters, to structuring scripts and filming, editing, through to delivery, titles and getting people to watch.

Script Partners

Script Partners
Author: Claudia Hunter Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9780941188753

This handbook brings together the experience, knowledge, techniques, and wisdom of many successful writing teams for film and television.

Lights, Camera, Action!

Lights, Camera, Action!
Author: Lisa O'Brien
Publisher: Maple Tree
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9781897066898

"Look behind-the-scenes! This inside glimpse at movies and television features meetings with the production people, activities, quizzes and more"--Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.