The Audionetwork Blog : Top Tips

Audio Network's 3rd Annual Music Pub Quiz

By: Lina Tebbs
Date:: 11 Aug 2011

Last Thursday night we hosted our 3rd Annual Audio Network Pub Quiz. Music Prize Teams from The Telegraph; PRS; Blue Tuna and Objective Productions were just a few who pulled together to try and win not only the respect of everyone in the room, but the equally tempting £100 first and £50 second prize. As well as the cheerily familiar standard quiz rounds like Music Intros and General Knowledge, we saved the best for half way through. Knowing how clued up these teams were on guessing ...

My Decade as an Audio Network Music Composer

By: Barrie Gledden
Date:: 04 Aug 2011

As Audio Network celebrate their first decade as a successful music publishing library, I can’t believe it’s also been my first ten years as an Audio Network composer. What a journey it’s been! In 2001, as a budding composer, I was working with musicians who were telling me about the great things Andrew Sunnucks and Robert Hurst were proposing to do at their new music rights cleared library, Audio Network. I met with them and was offered a contract to compose ...

Music in Filmmaking - Sheffield DocFest 2011

By: Juliette Squair
Date:: 14 Jun 2011

Sheffield DocFest Just back from a highly successful visit to this year’s DocFest. Audio Network held two music rights workshops, “Clearing Rights and Creating Revenue” hosted by our Rights Manager, Simon Anderson and guests, lawyer Andrew Baker from Rights TV and Glyn Middleton from True North Productions. I was delighted to chair our panel debate, “Making Music Work in your Film: Drive the Narrative”. Making Music Work in your Film Our ...

Music Rights at Sheffield DocFest

By: Simon Anderson
Date:: 07 Jun 2011

Music Rights Surgery Having held Audio Networks ’ first Music Rights Surgery last year at DocFest I’m delighted to be heading back there next week. We’re hosting two workshops this time, as well as a panel debate. Judging from the response we got last year, music copyright is such an important part of filmmaking, it seemed a good idea to have a couple of workshops on the subject. Just how do you clear those music clips? What exactly are the issues ...

The Bluffer’s Guide to Composing Royal Wedding Music

By: Andrew Sunnucks
Date:: 13 Apr 2011

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The world has gone mad for Royal Weddings. The media has left no stone unturned in its search for a new angle, opinion or insight; commentators draw significance from the tiniest utterances of Will or Kate often seeking the inside track from their loosest acquaintances. Silkworm experts are giving their views on Royal Wedding dresses, village halls are gearing up for japes and frolics and health and safety experts, ...

Everything you need to know about Music for Film and Television

By: Juliette Squair
Date:: 17 Mar 2011

It was great to be a panel member at a recent Women in Film and Television (WFTV) event - 'Everything you need to know about Music for Film and Television'. Alongside me was composer Philip Sheppard, Becky Bentham, director of award winning Hot House Music and Dina Eaton, music editor whose credits include the James Bond films amongst others. Mediated by independent film maker Liz Tucker from Verve Productions, the debate largely focused on when choosing music for film or television – ...

Top Tips for Music Production

By: Gareth Johnson
Date:: 10 Mar 2011

I was delighted to be asked to give a couple of seminars to broadcast professionals at the annual Broadcast Magazine Production Show at Earls Court, London, recently. It meant that I had a captive audience made up of programme makers, producers and upcoming talent to wax lyrical to about my views on using music to produce creative content. I am by no means a polished presenter as I spend most of my days locked in the studio making music and getting geeky with studio equipment. ...