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The Slaight Family Music Lab

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2017 Slaight Music Residency Showcase

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Slaight Music Residency is a creative and business initiative for composers and songwriters. It encourages the complete integration of music creators into the onscreen process while offering unique business opportunities to increase the use of Canadian music in film and TV.

By providing you with advanced knowledge on how to effectively translate your musical talent to onscreen applications, we will help develop, package and launch your unique musical vision.

Please find additional information below, and contact music@cfccreates.com if you have any questions.

IMPORTANT DATES

2019 Slaight Music Residency Program start and end dates: July 15, 2019 to April TBA, 2020. For further important dates regarding nominations and applications, please check back in January 2019.

PROGRAM DESIGN

This is a part-time nine-month program for composers and songwriters that balances artistic expression and creative collaboration with current market demands.

Core Components

Enhancing story through music
Expanding onscreen work
Elevating craft and collaborative skills
Building career and business strategies

Outcomes

Increases a music creator’s onscreen musical knowledge and skills
Brokers countless creative and business opportunities by offering you access to international mentors, creative advisors and industry professionals
Inspires creativity and a deeper understanding of the relationship between music and film and TV through high-level case studies and workshops
Delivers a series of complex onscreen music exercises and opportunities
Expands your reel
Builds opportunities to showcase your talent on screen and positions you for work in the screen entertainment industry

The Slaight Music Residency begins with a practical, multi-week bootcamp consisting of workshops and master classes with top music and onscreen professionals, as well as business and technical experts.

In addition to your initial intensive training, the Slaight Music Residency is a part-time program bringing composers and songwriters together for workshopping opportunities and collaborations with other disciplines.

Enhancing Story through Music

These sessions will immerse you in the creative process examining storytelling from both a visual and musical perspective. You will work with established songwriters, composers and music supervisors in tandem with onscreen storytellers including directors, editors and producers.

Expanding Onscreen Work

The program offers composers and songwriters a number of opportunities to increase their body of onscreen work. These range from internal production exercises to larger-scale promotional pieces that serve as both exercises and showcases for your content.

Elevating Craft and Collaborative Skills

Intensive workshops and sessions will develop your abilities to create effective score and songs and to explore best practices within your respective crafts.

Building Career and Business Strategies

The program expands your professional networks and builds your professional portfolio and collateral.

ELIGIBILITY

Designed for composers and songwriters with a strong creative voice and desire to collaborate, the Slaight Music Residency will help you expand your range and profile of onscreen music.

To apply, composers must have scored at least two of the following: a feature, short film or commercial, or a drama, documentary or lifestyle television program. Songwriters must have written a minimum of two commercially exploited songs in film, television, commercials or released by a record label or have a publishing contract. Both composers and songwriters must have experience working with Logic Pro.

Applicants must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada.

For any additional questions concerning The Slaight Family Music Lab and the Slaight Music Residency, please email music@cfccreates.com.

ACCESSIBILITY FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

The CFC is committed to providing accessible practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require accommodation at any stage of the application process or have any questions regarding appropriate accommodations please contact Deborah Fallows, CHRO, at: dfallows@cfccreates.com.

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Please find additional information on the application process below, and if you have any questions, please contact music@cfccreates.com.

ELIGIBILITY

Designed for composers and songwriters with a strong creative voice and desire to collaborate, the Slaight Music Residency will help you expand your range and profile of onscreen music.

Applicants must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada.

We are committed to equity and inclusion, and welcome and encourage applications from diverse Aboriginal, cultural and regional communities, and from applicants living with disabilities.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Nominations for the 2018 Slaight Family Music Lab are now open.

Nominations Open: February 5, 2018
Nominations Close: March 30, 2018
Application Deadline: April 6, 2018
Selections: May 2018 (dates TBD)
Program Start Date: July 16, 2017
Program End Date: April 2019 (date TBD)

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants must be nominated by an established songwriter, professional or gold member of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada, established film, television, documentary director, producer, showrunner, music supervisor or music executive.

The nominator must email the contact information of the composer or songwriter they are nominating to: music@cfccreates.com. The CFC will follow-up with the composer or songwriter via email and forward the online application instructions.

Application Requirements:

1. Must be a Canadian Citizen or a Permanent Resident of Canada

2. Letter of intent: A one-page description outlining what you hope to achieve by attending the Slaight Music Residency, both within the program and after, including your thoughts about the particular skills you would like to improve and how you plan to do so during the program.

3. Link to view your Demo Reel online: Your reel should demonstrate your range and talent. It should contain a variety of complete scenes from feature or short films, television programs, or commercials. Unless submitting a feature film, please keep the total running time to under 15 minutes.

4. Resume

5. Reference Letters (2 maximum): From anyone who is familiar with your musical ability. Letters should emphasize your proven commitment to your craft. Letters should be addressed to "Slaight Music Residency Selection Committee".

SELECTION PROCESS

A selection committee comprised of industry professionals from across Canada and key program staff will review your application.

Shortlisted applicants will be notified by phone; applicants who are not shortlisted will be notified by email.

The CFC will set up in-person interviews with shortlisted applicants.

If you are shortlisted, interviews will take place in Late May.

The interview is intended to clarify each applicant’s expectations and assist the committee in determining which candidates will best contribute to and benefit from the program’s design.

TUITION

There is no tuition for the 2018 Slaight Music Residency, and all accepted candidates will receive a bursary which is made possible through the generosity of the Slaight Family Foundation.

2017 Slaight Music Residency Showcase

These music Showcases are produced cinematic works based on an original score or song created by our 2017 Slaight Music Residents. Filmed in a single day, these Showcase pieces celebrate the distinct talent of our songwriters and composers and illustrate how music brings life to the moving image.