Creating Music for Dramatic Television

This seminar features 5 primetime composers describing their techniques of writing for dramatic television. Topics include:

· The creative process of writing for dramas versus writing for comedic or reality TV.
· The difference between writing for TV versus film.
· The difference between writing for TV versus videogames.
· Collaborating with TV producers versus a film director.
· How to get into TV composing.
· The musical anatomy of a specific TV scene will be explained by each composer.

Panelists include:
Marc Fantini (Criminal Minds, Army Wives)
Christopher Lennertz (Supernatural, Horrible Bosses)
Daniel Licht (Dexter, Body of Proof)
Mateo Messina (Fairly Legal, Perfect Couples, Juno)
SCL President Dan Foliart (The Secret Life of the American Teenager, 7th Heaven)