About SCOREcast

SCOREcast is a community of working film and television music professionals dedicated to providing relevant news, opinion, commentary, and editorial about our business to the professional film production community. Its core aim is to inform and educate the film community on the re-sophistication of the business and craft of making music for film and television.

SCOREcast Origins

Film composer Deane Ogden (IMDb) founded SCOREcast in the fall of 2006, which started as a monthly Internet podcast devoted to helping those trying to get a foot in the door of the film music business. Originally co-hosted with one of his assistants, Ogden would offer practical business advice, tips and techniques based on his personal experience as an independent feature film and television composer.

iTunes and Academia

As the show began to evolve, so did its audience, and after early integration into the iTunes family of podcasts, SCOREcast rapidly became one of the most listened-to film music-centric podcasts on the Internet. In August of 2007, after back-to-back turns on iTunes’ Featured Top 20 list, two of America’s top universities incorporated the SCOREcast podcast into the “recommended resources” for their film music certification program curricula. By January 2008, the SCOREcast listener base on iTunes reached upwards of 6,000 people worldwide.

Realizing the huge potential for something like SCOREcast to influence and mentor thousands of would-be composers, Ogden enlisted the help of veteran film and television composer Lee Sanders (IMDb) to co-host the SCOREcast podcast.

SCOREcastOnline.com Website

Soon after, Ogden formed a global leadership team, made-up of working film music professionals, and began outlining plans for a SCOREcast website. The site would serve a three-fold purpose: To serve as as a “virtual lounge” for unknown composers interested in a career in film music, to support the SCOREcast podcast with shownotes and a searchable database of articles, and to fill the need for a centralized resource for working professionals within the film, television, and video game music industries.

In April of 2009, on the eve of the 19th episode of the podcast, SCORECASTONLINE.COM was launched, servicing the entire film music community, and featuring regular columns, video, audio, blogs, polls, and interactive commenting. As the roll-out of the website continued throughout 2009, so did the expansion of its content and features. A worldwide team of contributing editors was assembled, consisting of working professional television and film composers, orchestrators, music editors, re-recording mixers, film music recordists, and composer assistants.

On December 12, 2010, Los Angeles-based composer Brian Ralston (IMDb) replaced Lee Sanders as Ogden’s co-host on the SCOREcast podcast, and the 27th episode of the podcast was released.

Community Chapters

That same week, on December 14, 2010, Deane Ogden announced SCOREcast’s first official international expansion with the formation of SCOREcast: London—a chapter of SCOREcast composer/readers located in and around London, England. UK composer James Semple (IMDb) was installed as the director of the London chapter.

Daily Reach

Today, the SCORECAST podcast broadcasts regularly from iTunes, and is heard by tens of thousands of people worldwide. SCORECASTONLINE.COM serves as the main companion to the podcast, and has become the Internet’s leading hub of interactive discussion for the professional film and television music communities, with an average of 40,000 unique visits per day by people all around the globe. The worldwide SCOREcast audience has firmly established SCOREcast as the home of the professional film music community.