Facebook is pretty cool.

Over the last few weeks I've been getting to know a great group film score composers.  A couple weeks ago, Deane Ogden sent out a note that he's rebooting his film score podcast, SCOREcast.  SCOREcast is a free podcast, having to do with all things related to film scoring.  The way Deane tells it, he started SCOREcast as a way to answer all the questions he would get from people, in a way that benefits everyone, and keeps him from having to write a ton of individual emails a month.

Well he's refreshing SCOREcast, but a few of us have been brainstorming on a web site to supplement the podcast (official name forthcoming).  It's intended to be a destination site (rather, THE destination site) for film score composers, fans of film scores, and for people who aspire to become composers for film.  The site will be a community for composers in all stages of their career.  We even plan to court the A-list guys to do some guest articles or somesuch.  For the seasoned guys it'll give them a chance to share experiences, techniques, network, and to mentor others if they choose.  For the newbies, it'll be a place of learning, a reference library, and whatever else we want to make it.  For all it'll be a great source of news, community, and support.  And let me be clear on one thing: this will not be a "bunch of guys got together and built a site" site.  It will be a legitimate, professional site with important information, useful resources, stuff available nowhere else.  Our goal is to make it an indispensable resource to film composers- the type of site where you're considered out of touch if you're not on it.  So if you are a film composer, aspire to be a film composer, or are a fan, contact me!  We'll keep you up to date on progress.

The SCOREcast podcast is available on iTunes, here.  It's available now, so please subscribe.  Thanks!