Getting the Best Score for Your Film
by David A. Bell
Copyright 1994 Silman-James Press

You finally have the financing to make your film. You’ve hired the cast and crewed, scouted locations and revised the script. But, before you don your directors beret you may want to start planning how the film should be scored.

Getting the Best Score for Your Film is a guide that offers the filmmaker the following information:


1. How to select the right composer
2. Scoring a film from beginning to end
3. Information on the ASCAP and BMI organizations
4. The Musician’s Union
5. Package Deal
6. Song usage

There are also interviews with film composers and filmmakers interspersed throughout this book. Getting the Best Score for Your Film is a quick and a must for anyone interested in being a filmmaker or scoring a film.