General Music Chat

Have been exploring Linkedin lately, never really understood it. Found this tip and thought some of you might like to give it a try. Evidently, they post a video of someone's geneology study, and then songwriters/musicians score music to it and the owner chooses which song he likes and pays you $450 if yours is the one they like.

Interested? This one expires tomorrow at midnight.

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Paying $450 to Score Musical Theme for Family Documentaries
Hi everyone,

ReelGenie, LLC is paying $450 for original background music to be used in their family history documentaries. They will be using this music behind short documentaries of people's family histories. They are looking for a three minute track.

-- Gig Details --

URL: http://audiocat.ch/WbJXz4
Ends: December 7th at 11:59pm -5:00 GMT
Prize: $450 minus Audio Catch Fees
License: Buyout into Perpetuity

Cost to Participate: $0 - Costs nothing, as it should be.

Simply Register at www.audiocatch.com and participate with a custom audition.

Thanks everyone,
Kyn
Co-Founder
Audio Catch LLC

What is Audio Catch?
Audio Catch crowdsources custom audio (music, sound effects, and voice over) for any media project (video games to movie trailers). We provide real paid Gigs to our artists with no sign up fees. We only make money if our artists do. So how does it work? Our clients post Gigs on Audio Catch and artists audition by uploading customized audio for the Gig. The client selects the winning artist and awards cash for the rights to use the audio.

Great if you've got something ready to go, otherwise writing/recording/mixing a 3 minute tune in less than 2 days is going to result in ...
I've got a couple of instrumentals in the can, and could probably do a trance thing with MIDI, except my keyboard is at the practice place.


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I just looked at the details, they have a specific thing they are looking for - piano and strings, 2 sections @ 1min 30 sec each. Just this 1 time.
I thought this might be an ongoing thing, where they would have multiple 3 minute instrumentals ready to plug onto the videos.

Costs $0 to participate? What about studio time, hiring any needed musicians, mixing and mastering, and your time? Don't forget their fees.

Great if you've got something ready to go, otherwise writing/recording/mixing a 3 minute tune in less than 2 days is going to result in ...
I've got a couple of instrumentals in the can, and could probably do a trance thing with MIDI, except my keyboard is at the practice place.

I'd think that anyone trying to beat that deadline would have the same challenges. It can't hurt to try since it's free.

I mean, we're only talking about background music to a family picture collage.

But more to the point, I'm just showing how there are opportunities for us through networking with professional film/tv/industry groups on Linkedin (if you are someone looking for that kind of opportunity)


They mention fees without saying how much. I'd check into it more thoroughly but I have a 9 drive to New Orleans today. Can't believe I'm still jacking around on a discussion board!?

$450 is a ripoff. It costs more than that to professionally produce it. They will probably want exclusivity rights to it also, and probably indefinitely (I didn't read the details). They may want total ownership. They are too cheap to go to a library and license it for use, where they would (and should) have to pay ongoing royalties on a per-use basis.

Don't get hood-winked. If you have something worth selling for that type of promo, you could do a lot better.

It looks to be a 1-time thing, can't imagine many families willing to spend that kind of money for a 3 minutes family history video!