Writing Music for Television and Radio Commercials (and more): A Manual for Composers and Students

188 !!Chapter 10 Assignments Download a motion picture trailer from the Internet. Remove the sound and rerecord the announcer c ...

11 Video Game Music Computer Space is the first video game developed for the arcades. One player pilots a rocket ship and fights ...

190 !!Chapter 11 !!Video game music is also heard on the concert stage. Major symphony or- chestras perform the music, which is ...

Video Game Music!! 191 ‘‘sold 1 million units in less than 2 months’’ (Billboard, May 13, 2006). Game companies search for new i ...

192 !!Chapter 11 cult to hear a lightly orchestrated musical cue if countless explosions hap- pen simultaneously and the actors’ ...

Video Game Music!! 193 posing is not written in a linear format. Game players have the power to control the behavior of the char ...

194 !!Chapter 11 Many game composers begin the process by composing several themes. It is hoped that the creative team selects ...

Video Game Music!! 195 Demos (Mock-Ups) !!Available orchestral samples are of such high quality that it is sometimes difficult t ...

196 !!Chapter 11 music written by other composers or music the composer has written for other projects. In an effort to avoid le ...

Video Game Music!! 197 to create the sound effects. It behooves composers to learn this craft. Most composers who write music fo ...

198 !!Chapter 11 !!Nonunion actors and nonunion musicians can perform one job with union actors and union musicians before they ...

Video Game Music!! 199 recording sessions; budgets do not allow for rewriting. The mock-ups (synthesized music cues) are approve ...

200 !!Chapter 11 As mentioned earlier in the chapter, some composers begin the com- positional process by writing multiple them ...

Video Game Music!! 201 smoothly shift from one musical section to another, as mentioned in the previous paragraph. General Infor ...

202 !!Chapter 11 The Business of Video Game Composition Confidentiality (Nondisclosure) Agreements Composers are required to sig ...

Video Game Music!! 203 The company pays the recording costs, and the composers’ fees are paid directly to the composers. The r ...

204 !!Chapter 11 ments are a part of the U.S. copyright law.) The agreements state that the company (game publisher) owns all ri ...

Video Game Music!! 205 the attorneys representing composers must try not to allow the company to cross collateralize the game ex ...

206 !!Chapter 11 shares but also the shares of each record company that owns the master sound recording rights to the samples. T ...

Video Game Music!! 207 Term.The term shall be for (number of years) from the initial date of release of the game. The Company wi ...