Edition 2004
Film & Music
WSA
What about the music rights? How can a score be composed using an existing song as a starting point? These are the questions this year's film music seminar tries to answer.
Since there is often not enough budget for beginning directors to hire major composers to write an original score, they want to fall back on existing music and songs. But is this more advantageous? The rights issues surrounding this are complex and often unknown territory for young artists and producers. The Film Music Seminar invites guests such as Jan Hautekiet, Guy Van Handenhove, Luc Gulinck and Hilde De Laere to untangle the tangle of usage rights and give an insight into the financial implications. Dirk Impens, Christoffel Cocquyt, Dirk Vervenne and David Arnold are also thinking along.
Even before one metre of film has been shot, directors often have a genre of music or a song in mind. Often, editing is done around that music, the generic is made in function of that song.... Is there a solution? Are there composers willing to bend to the style the director has in mind? Can a composer find inspiration in an existing song to build the rest of the score on this?
Even before one metre of film has been shot, directors often have a genre of music or a song in mind. Often, editing is done around that music, the generic is made in function of that song.... Is there a solution? Are there composers willing to bend to the style the director has in mind? Can a composer find inspiration in an existing song to build the rest of the score on this?