Music in Film Summit 1E Music Supervision and Song Placement

Music in Film Summit 2009 speakers supervise Music for Disney, Fox, Zenden and Paramount. Randy Spendlove is President of Film Music at Paramount Studios and supervised music for the upcoming Footloose remake as well as Finding Neverland, Ella Enchanted, Cold Mountain and Chicago. Steven Vincent is VP of Music and Soundtracks for the Disney Channel and supervised music for Hannah Montana and High School Musical. Dana Sano is Producer at Zenden Entertainment and supervised music on films such as Final Destination, Burning Plain, We Own the Night, the Cell and Love & Basketball. Mike Knoblock is SVP of Film Music at 20th Century Fox and supervised music on projects such as Titanic and Avatar.

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Entertainment

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• music
• film
• summit
• disney
• fox
• paramount
• zenden
• supervision
• song
• placement

[theabnormalalli]

I partially disagree with sleepycrash and rnance72. I believe in some situations a well known song can turn people onto a movie. But, often, a great movie trailer will help good songs to be better known.

[nmsugrants]

Yes, popular songs can help a movie and studios would use them more if the songs didn't cost so much to use. The price is high for use in the movie but even higher if they use it in trailers and commercials.

[Aj1171]

lol its making me wait to comment on videos but anyways what these people have to say is pretty cool

[nmsugrants]

Yes, this was a really neat event. I learned a ton from these speakers.

[nmsumikeyw]

I agree that it doesn't make sense to even use a piece of music that you cannot afford to run in promotional ads. A good song can draw people to see a movie if used right in a trailer. However, if that song is used within the movie, but for cost reasons, cannot be used in the trailer, so replacement music is used, then the trailer might not get as much attention as if it had used the popular song.

[JsJumpersFunRentals]

Having their own songs written sounds like the best option...I like it

[AggieSigner]

It's nice to know that the people who make these movies can write their own original songs to use instead of using radio music.

[Jinkinater]

interesting they can save a lot of money just by having an actor/actress sing

[sgarduno2010]

I like how they write and use their own music so that they give their young talanted unknow stars a chance to get themselves out there.

[anneyone]

Its really cool that movies use songwriters instead of radio music. I like this not only becuase it saves money but because it also gives the more personalization.

[judybolingerzv]

This is a superb movie, I managed to watch it free here: watchmovies4free (.) org

[dheeel1]

Opening up songs to new atirsts is a great idea by the msuci industry. It helps promote the movie and i agree disney is the best at doing it.

[susartin]

I think it would be awesome to be a song writer and get the chance to create a song for a movie. Especially if it was for a movie as big as Transformers.

[IchixNi]

I agree with TheAcosta84 - go indie!