AT THE HISTORIC RIVIERA THEATRE

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If you are a filmmaker looking to understand the need, placement and importance of music in your film, or a musician trying to discover how to get your work heard and included in film, you won’t want to miss the Music in Film this discussion being offered through the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival.

On Friday, March 28th, at the Adams Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo, Scottpatrick Sellitto, known simply as “Scottpatrick” in the music business world, will discuss and speak about both sides of music and movies. 

The lecture begins promptly at NOON and will last approximately 2 1/2 - 3 hours. Cost is a $10 Ticket Fee.

The first part of his lecture, The Filmmaker’s Perspective on Music, will help filmmakers understand the need and importance of finding, placing and utilizing music to enhance their project.  Other topics will include, creative sourcing, fee structures, licensing deals, how to protect yourself, how to get free music placements, what royalty-free music is and when you should and shouldn’t consider using it, time lines and helpful hints on obtaining music, and obtaining temp tracks.  Scottpatrick will also discuss what a music supervisor is and when you should hire one, along with a discussion on creating a movie’s soundtrack for additional revenue and how one goes about doing that.

The second portion of the lecture presents the opposite point of view- The Musician and Composer’s Perspective on Providing Music for Movies.  This portion of the lecture will include discussions on topics such as: identity development using the internet, how to get your name/band recognized, finding arenas such as commercials and corporate video, where music is also used, how to find music supervisors, how to get the attention of a music supervisor, submission guidelines for submitting your music to projects, when getting ‘placed’ is better than getting ‘paid’, overview of terms and conditions normally found in music contracts, understanding how musicians and composers get paid,  working under deadlines and timelines, how to protect yourself and your music, ins and outs of creating ‘new’ music for a project, and developing music on the computer.

Scottpatrick will be proving attendees with a handout containing valuable additional information as well as valuable resources to retain as reference materials.  There will be a Q&A session afterwards. 

J.D. Zeik has been a working writer for almost two decades.  Over this time he has worked with every major studio in Los Angeles, and he continues to work within the studio system on both original works and as a script doctor.  His original screenplay, Ronin, starring Robert DeNiro, was filmed and released by United Artists in 1998.  His original screenplay, Marker, is now on DVD, starring Steven Seagal.  He is currently writing a screenplay for the rapper 50 Cent.

Zeik also wrote and produced the TNT film production of Witchblade, which then served as the basis for a TV series produced in 2002 and 2003 on which he also worked as a writing producer.  Zeik worked with Michelle Yeoh (Memoirs of a Geisha) on The Touch, which was released worldwide in the summer of 2002.  He has worked with such directors as Bruce Beresford, Alfonso Cuaron, Harold Becker, James Cameron, and the late John Frankenheimer.

J.D. graduated from SUNY Purchase, where he started his writing career as a playwright.  His plays have been produced in both New York and Los Angeles.  He has taught screenwriting at Purchase since the spring of 2000 in both the Film and the Dramatic Writing programs.