This event is sponsored by Finessed Media, Inc. and hosted by Jenna Soliman.
Today, sync placements in movies and television shows can skyrocket an artist to fame and alter the course of their career. The role of the music supervisor has, thus, become incredibly important in the music industry, but it is also a role that few truly understand.
This week we will be chatting with two accomplished music supervisors: Angela P. Lewis and Jennifer Smith. They have placed songs in movies, reality shows, and dramas alike, and they have an in-depth understanding of the relationship between the music industry and the film and television industries.
We’ll be discussing this relationship, the innerworkings of the music sync process, and how rising artists can start looking for sync placements for their music.
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Agenda:
12 - 12:10pm ET Introductions
12:10 - 12:45pm ET Interview with Jennifer Smith and Angela P. Lewis
12:45 - 1pm ET Live Q+A with Zoom Audience
1 - 1:30pm ET Networking/Listening Session
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LISTENING SESSION
The event will be concluded with our weekly listening session. 6-8 artists will have a chance to play their music in front of a live audience and will receive constructive criticism from our speakers.
To be considered for music play in the listening session, artists must purchase a SUBMISSION REVIEW ticket and submit one song LINK (preferably Spotify) by Friday 10/15 at 9pm ET with subject line "SATURDAY SUBMISSION" to info@finessed.media.
Our team will screen your music for relevancy to audience, quality, and how beneficial the feedback will be. If your submission is not accepted, you will receive a full refund. Submissions that are accepted will have 1:30 to 2 min of their song played in front of the audience.
Must be a Finessed Media VIP Career Development member or purchase a SUBMISSION REVIEW ticket for consideration.
Obtain membership here.
Songs will be reviewed before the listening session and your purchase will be refunded if the song is not accepted.
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Angela P. Lewis is a multifaceted creative who specializes in songwriting, music production, recording engineering, audio editing and mixing. She has had television instrumental placements on the TV ONE network in the reality show series Ricky Smiley For Real and the made for TV film Merry Wish-Mas. With the television film, Angela also operated as the Assistant Music Supervisor, receiving her first IMDB credit in that role. Angela is determined to make a significant mark on the sync world and the music industry as a whole!
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Jennifer Smith is a Los Angeles-based music supervisor who has worked in the film/tv/media industry for over a decade. She started her career as part of the music teams for major network shows such as Dancing With The Stars (ABC), The Ellen Degeneres Show (WB), and America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV). Her love of music and the exploding media landscape guided her to join the Kobalt Music synchronization team to creatively pitch and clear music with networks, studios, music supervisors, production companies, and new media companies. Her time at Kobalt gave her extensive and broad experience in the synchronization world, dealing with all stakeholders in the creative and business process including record labels, songwriters, producers, musicians, managers, and marketing teams.
After seven years at Kobalt, Jennifer went back to her first love of content and storytelling and joined the music team on ABC’s reboot of American Idol. After that show’s first season, she was inspired in 2018 to launch her own music supervision company, “Rat Dance Party.” Rat Dance Party specializes in Film, TV (scripted and non-scripted), and new media (especially podcasts). With Rat Dance Party Jennifer has worked on projects produced by Showtime, Netflix, Viacom, Shorts TV, Amazon, Pluto TV, NBC, Voltage Pictures, Indican Productions, and many more. She recently worked on Season 2 of “Why Women Kill” (CBS), Behind The Music (Paramount*), Netflix’s “Deadly Illusions”. Recently elected to the Board of the Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS), Jennifer is also a member of the Television Academy, Women In Film, Women In Media, and the Recording Academy.
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