The Audio Network Blog : documentary film

Specially Composed Music - Lost Kingdoms of South America

By: Terry Devine-King
Date:: 30 May 2013

Towards the end of last year, I was asked to compose music for the tv series " Lost Kingdoms of South America ". Ancient civilisations are a passion of mine, so you can imagine, I was rather excited about this project! Composing music Composing music for such a programme was never going to be straightforward. For a start, there’s no musical reference for ancient civilisations of South America, (or maybe there’s a bearded academic that can put me right on this?), so it was a case ...

Scoring it Big: Music in Film

By: Film Director: Jack Jewers
Date:: 19 Sep 2012

IT STARTS WITH A PLAYLIST . . . For me, a film starts with the music. Literally. A soundtrack is like a creative hotwire into my brain. Even if a film is still just some scribbled notes and a blank sheet of paper, it needs music to grow. I’ll start by making a playlist. I cherry pick music from anywhere – TV and film soundtracks, production music , classical pieces – anything that speaks to me in some way about what I’m trying to achieve. (That’s one reason ...

Audio Network at Sheffield DocFest

By: Simon Marett
Date:: 21 Jun 2012

Music & Documentaries at Sheffield Doc/Fest I've always loved going to Sheffield Doc/Fest, ever since I went there with Broadcast Magazine about 10 years ago. It's a far more impressive event in size and scale now than it was back then but it hasn't lost its roots. I love the fact it consumes the entire city for the week and you're as likely to attend a session in the grand Victorian Town Hall as you are the 'Studentesque' Rutland Arms pub opposite the Workstation. You don't get that in ...

Round Up: Sheffield Docfest - Advice for producers and filmmakers.

By: Carrie Russell
Date:: 19 Jun 2012

Last week myself and some of the Audio Network team headed to the historic steel town of Sheffield for the 19th Annual Sheffield Docfest .This is the annual international festival for documentary filmmakers and I attended some fantastically insightful sessions - below, some of the best advice - Small Fish, (Very) Big Pond: A Manifesto for Emerging Documentary Talent Presented by the DFG (Documentary Filmmakers Group) with speakers from Mosaic Films, Channel 4, The BBC and The Smalls, this session ...

Audio Network's New Music Website

By: Simon Marett
Date:: 12 Oct 2011

The new and improved music website from Audio Network It’s been over 12 months in the making but today, Wednesday 12th October, we’re delighted to unveil our new music website at beta.audionetwork.com . We’ve listened to our customers’ feedback from around the world and we hope we’ve created a website that provides a better music and customer experience right across the site. ‘Easier, Quicker, Simpler’ is what you asked for so that is where’s we’ve ...

Music in Documentaries - A Nordic Adventure

By: Simon Marett
Date:: 30 Sep 2011

I always love travelling to Scandinavia and I visit Norway on a regular basis (my wife is Norwegian) so when the opportunity came up to attend Nordisk Panorama, a major annual Nordic documentary festival in Aarhus, Denmark, I jumped at the chance. This was a great opportunity to learn more about the use of music in documentaries from the Nordic region and practice my NorwegIan language skills - much needed! The Nordic region is a vital territory for Audio Network and I wanted to gain a good understanding ...

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 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 ...

Audio Network supports DFG's 10 X 10 event at East End Film Festival.

By: Katie Motion
Date:: 04 May 2011

East End Film Festival Some colleagues from Audio Network and I attended The East End Film Festival last week. We were supporting the great work that the DFG do - the DFG is the national organisation working to promote documentary filmmaking talent and innovation in the UK. The work they do aims to encourage, stimulate, promote and support the growth of a strong community of documentary filmmakers and film audiences and we at Audio Network are proud to work alongside and support ...