Post by Rob W on Aug 25, 2016 18:32:41 GMT
I'd forgotten about this idea until a Producer/Director I'm currently working with said something (about his mate writing music for TV) that reminded me.
This year I've done a Drama/Doc for C5 and then went straight on to 'Paul O'Grady's Love of Dogs' (POG) programme. I'm currently working on 'Come Dine With Me'. This task is not just an excuse for me to spread my CV before you but is based on the music I've used particularly on the last time programmes on which I've worked.
For example, in the 'POG' programme, we'd be introduced to various dogs all of whom had a name and a story. So there'd be a Beagle called Bobby who was brought in to Battersea Dogs' Home as a stray and it was thought he'd either been a Lab dog or part of a hunt pack. He'd obviously been mistreated and was terrified of humans so our shots were of him looking scared in his kennel and the music reflected that (that's not a great example as I cannot remember the name of the initial track we used!!
Another example would be a dog who rushes around everywhere and we used a song called 'Hurry, Hurry, Baby'.
Obviously other ideas I could give you were based on the name of the dog. There was Lydia, Gracie and Bernard to name a few.
So my idea is that you write a song that COULD be used in a Factual TV programme and I'd suggest that you should concentrate on distilling your ideas down as - in TV Land - we'll rarely use more than a single phrase or even a line of the song.
I would be interested to hear if this is too broad for those of you who require a few more restrictions. In other words, if you'd prefer we could
a) Say that we're writing for the 'POG Dogs' programme and/or
b) I could give you a list of names to write songs about or
c) I could leave it to you to write a song that could appear in any TV programme and leave it to you to write (in your sleeve notes) the 'story' behind the song and in which TV programme you thought it could appear.
It's sort of like 'Theme Month' but nowhere near as grand!
If you go to YouTube and type in 'Paul O'Grady for the love of dogs' you'll get a sense of how the music is used and you'll also note that most of it is 40s, 50s and 60s 'Swing' music. That is not something I'd impose on you!
This year I've done a Drama/Doc for C5 and then went straight on to 'Paul O'Grady's Love of Dogs' (POG) programme. I'm currently working on 'Come Dine With Me'. This task is not just an excuse for me to spread my CV before you but is based on the music I've used particularly on the last time programmes on which I've worked.
For example, in the 'POG' programme, we'd be introduced to various dogs all of whom had a name and a story. So there'd be a Beagle called Bobby who was brought in to Battersea Dogs' Home as a stray and it was thought he'd either been a Lab dog or part of a hunt pack. He'd obviously been mistreated and was terrified of humans so our shots were of him looking scared in his kennel and the music reflected that (that's not a great example as I cannot remember the name of the initial track we used!!
Another example would be a dog who rushes around everywhere and we used a song called 'Hurry, Hurry, Baby'.
Obviously other ideas I could give you were based on the name of the dog. There was Lydia, Gracie and Bernard to name a few.
So my idea is that you write a song that COULD be used in a Factual TV programme and I'd suggest that you should concentrate on distilling your ideas down as - in TV Land - we'll rarely use more than a single phrase or even a line of the song.
I would be interested to hear if this is too broad for those of you who require a few more restrictions. In other words, if you'd prefer we could
a) Say that we're writing for the 'POG Dogs' programme and/or
b) I could give you a list of names to write songs about or
c) I could leave it to you to write a song that could appear in any TV programme and leave it to you to write (in your sleeve notes) the 'story' behind the song and in which TV programme you thought it could appear.
It's sort of like 'Theme Month' but nowhere near as grand!
If you go to YouTube and type in 'Paul O'Grady for the love of dogs' you'll get a sense of how the music is used and you'll also note that most of it is 40s, 50s and 60s 'Swing' music. That is not something I'd impose on you!
