LFA presents:
Music for Screened Media
ICA Brandon Room Sun 8 Mar 4.30-6pm
£10 / £9 ICA and BEV members
An interactive panel discussion chaired by multi-award winning composer and sound designer Nick Ryan (Mike Bassett – Football Manager; The Dark House).
This event includes industry professionals at the forefront of the British Film and TV music industry, music composers, producers and sound designers such as Olivia Dixon (Screened Music Network), and Laura Rossi. The panel will be focusing on real world examples of successful film and television music, revealing some of the industry's best-kept technical secrets.
Nick Ryan
Nick Ryan holds top industry awards in technical and creative fields for his unique approach to sound and music for film, TV Drama and Documentary, Interactive Media and Orchestral composition. His recent Film and TV Drama work include digital shorts for the UK Film Councils' BLANK SLATE short film initiative, UK feature Rabbit Fever, ITV's 6 part series Mike Bassett - Football Manager and Carol Morley's Stalin My Neighbour. Nick has scored numerous TV documentaries including P.G Wodehouse - The Long Exile (BBC 2), Football Diaries (5 Part Series, BBC 2) The David Beckham Story (CH4), The Tale of the Dragon (The life of Bruce Lee) (CH4) and The Real King Herod (CH4 and Discovery Channel). Nick's work extends to Radio, Interactive Media, and Animation. In 2004 he received a BAFTA for The Dark House, a groundbreaking interactive Radio Drama which he devised and scored, broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 in September 2003. He also is a winner of The PRS Foundation New Music Award 2008 (for the creation of a groundbreaking new musical composition for the UK).
Olivia Dixon
Olivia is the founder of Screened Music Network, an exclusive online community of UK-based film and television composers whose members are invited to join or auditioned by an industry panel. The Screened Music website profiles the work of its composer members while also being a platform for the discussion and review of film and tv music.
Screened Music was formed in May 2007 now has 90 professional composer members. The network is now a thriving community that unites professionals from all areas of media production through regular networking events, screenings and seminars.
Olivia is also an experienced composer whose music is used globally in dramas, documentaries and adverts.
About Screened Music
Screened Music is the UK's only selective network for specialist film and television composers. Members include some of the industry's most successful award-winning composers alongside the cream of the nation's emerging talent. The network launched in July 2007 with the aim of showcasing British talent while creating a community for screen composers.
It¹s website - http://www.screenedmusic.co.uk- provides a unique platform for the discussion and review of music for screen and has proved to be a much-needed resource for the media music industry.
The network contains over 90 professional composer members, listed in the categories of emerging, established and acclaimed.
October 2008 saw the launch of Screened Music's online editorial channel which examines film and TV music-related topics and explores some of the issues faced by today¹s screen composers.
The website also hosts a unique Collaboration Board, designed to help screen composers work together by sharing skills, equipment and knowledge.
Laura Rossi
Laura Rossi has written extensively for film and television, including scores for Paul Andrew Williams' critically acclaimed features London to Brighton and The Cottage, the British Film Institute's award winning Silent Shakespeare and the feature Broken Lines, by Sallie Aprahamian, which premiered in the London Film Festival. Laura has most recently completed scoring the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme which remains one of the most successful British films ever made. The music was recorded by the Philharmonia Orchestra for the Virtuosa Records label and has recently been released on CD and DVD to worldwide critical acclaim. Her works have been performed at the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, and with her own ensemble has performed her music in Sao Paulo and across the UK.
The London Film Academy
The London Film Academy is a non-profit making trust. We provide high standard of up-to-date practical film training in all the key areas of filmmaking in the hub of one of the world’s leading film capitals.
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