On April 1st, 2011, six top film, television and video game composers spoke at the Behind the Music with CW3PR: Composing for Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Film & TV panel at San Francisco’s WonderCon. The panel included ASCAP composers Marco Beltrami (V, Scream 4), Sean Callery (24), Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisies) and Scott Starrett (The Event), along with Nathan Barr (True Blood) and Michael Suby (Pretty Little Liars). Moderating the panel was acclaimed screenwriter and television producer Bryan Fuller, the creator of Dead Like Me and the Emmy-winning Pushing Daisies.
All of the composers shared background on their respective projects, discussed the pivotal relationship between director and composer, and revealed how they got their big breaks in the music composing industry. Following the discussion, the composers sat in on a fan-led Q&A session. Attendees were also treated to some surprise sneak-peaks from each composer’s upcoming projects.
WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and motion picture convention run by the creators of Comic-Con International and held in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987.
For more information please see www.comic-con.org/wc
About the ASCAP Panelists:
Marco Beltrami is a film and television composer who reunited with Wes Craven to create the original music for the highly anticipated Scream 4, set for release on April 15th, 2011. Beltrami is also composing music for ABC’s highly acclaimed television series V, now in its second season. Other film and TV credits include: Scream,Scream 2, Scream 3, The Hurt Locker, 3:10 to Yuma, Guillermo del Toro's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (releasing August 12th, 2011) and The Practice. Beltrami will be featured in conversation with Wes Craven at the 2011 ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO.
Sean Callery is an award-winning composer best known for his work on 24 and 24: Redemption. For his work on the popular FOX series, Callery received three Emmys for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) in 2003, 2006 and 2010. He’s also created original scores for Medium and Bones, both for NBC.
Jim Dooley is an Emmy-winning composer well known in film, television and video game circles. Credits include: The Da Vinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean, Obsessed, Pushing Daisies and Disney’s Epic Mickey. He recently finished the score to Carmel, an independent film starring Hayden Panettiere, Lauren Bacall and Josh Hutcherson. Additionally, his Pushing Daisies: Season Two soundtrack will be released on April 5th, 2011. Dooley is an alumnus of the ASCAP Foundation TV & Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis.
Scott Starrett has composed original music for award-winning feature films and television. He is currently writing the original music for NBC’s The Event, and will return to score Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva this spring. Starrett’s other credits include The Hopeful, The City of Water, the HBO feature Dim Sum Funeral and the Apollo astronaut feature documentary, The Wonder of It All. You can watch Starrett speaking about his work on The Event in his recent video interview for the ASCAP “We Create Music” Blog.
