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E-book Title: How To License Your Music Into Movies & Television
Author: Ron Proulx
Book Description: Your career in music is worth at least $25 to find out
"How To License Your Music Into Movies & Television"
The definitive guide that explains everything you need to know
How does licensing work? + Who do you send your music to? + How do you get paid?
What are you waiting for? You need this information now!
- Find out everything you need to know about licensing music for movie and TV uses
- This guide is written in easy-to-understand-everyday-English.
- Like hundreds of others who have ordered copies of this guide online, if you want to know more about how to license your music into movies and television, then you need this guide
- Written by industry veteran Ron Proulx, music supervisor of 75+ films & 350+ episodes of TV
You need this guide if...
If you are a songwriter, recording artist, artist manager, label owner, music publisher, or simply someone trying to figure out how the music business works, this guide will explain - in plain English - everything you need to know to effectively license music into movies and television.
You will learn who to send music to and how best to do it. You'll also learn every key dealpoint and how to negotiate effectively. And most importantly, you will learn where the money is in music licensing.
Filmmakers license and pay for music all the time
I have been in this business for 11 years and I know how things work where music and film/tv are concerned. I am a music supervisor for filmed entertainment. I know how to help you get noticed by the global entertainment community. I know how to help you build your career. I am interested in you and your music, because without you there would be no music in movies and television. I have also worked as a songwriter so I know what it's like to be where you are. Believe me when I say that this guide is written with your future in mind.
Filmed entertainment is a huge business
Every year, film and television producers spend several billion dollars writing and producing new programming. With thousands of television, cable and satellite stations - most broadcasting 24/7 - they simply have got to fill up that airtime and - as you see yourself when you watch movies and television - the use of music is neverending.
Whether it's comedy, drama, movies or kids' shows, the one thing all these programs have in common is that they all need and use music...and tons of it..
In my business, for a typical 13 epsiode season of a single 1/2 hour series, I might use five different songs, or over 60 songs total. And that's just one series!
The power of music licensing
You probably know at least one of The Rembrandts' songs: the theme song from the wildly successful TV series Friends.
The Rembrandts might have stayed a relatively unknown band if their management, their record company, or their publisher didn't try and get their songs licensed for film and television. The success of Friends has made the writers of the theme from the show hundreds of thousands of dollars. Licensing is simply the best way to increase revenue and exposure in a way that countless months and years of touring could never do for an artist and writer.
Something to think about
One episode of a show might air to a few million homes. Consider how long one would have to tour to have this kind of exposure, or how much radio airplay one would have to get to be heard by that many listeners. And, given the state of modern radio, more acts are getting their break through film and tv licensing than ever before.
Even less mainstream genres of music - blues, jazz, world, folk, electronic - have a marketplace and fullfil a need somewhere in the hundreds of new television shows and movies that are produced every year.
Further, you probably know that when music is licensed for film and TV, that there are licensing fees paid, as well as future money from performing rights when the show is aired. For songwriters and music publishers this is an extremely powerful economic lift.
Also, remember that over half of US movie sales (including home video) come from overseas. This guide explains how to increase the chances of your music getting picked up.
Comments from the author
There's never been a more exciting time to have the world discover great music. Every year, new artists are introduced to new fans by way of a song in a movie or in television. Every time a song appears in a television show, it generates income for songwriters and publishers.
If you've read this far, you probably want to learn more about licensing music into film and television. This guide will help you like it's helped hundreds of others.
It is written in everyday plain English and is not brain surgery. It is practical and to the point. It discusses everything one needs to know to successfully license their music into movies and television.
Certainly I would like to sell copies of this guide, but this is not the only reason that I have written it. Several years ago I was an artist with only vague ideas of how to get my songs into film and tv. Once I became a music supervisior and learned what it took to be successful in this area I realized that I had to write this guide to let others know what I had found out. if you read this guide, like myself, you will no longer be in the dark in this area of your career.
Best of luck, Ron Proulx
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