Welcome to “Dinner Music,” SOCAN’s webcast series designed to give you the inside track on topics you want to know about from the people who know them best!

Richard Crouse, film critic for Canada AM and co-host of Rogers Television’s long-running show Reel to Real, hosts a gathering of four music industry experts. Over dinner and drinks, they discuss the industry, their roles within it and offer their best advice.

Please select from the topics offered below.

Dinner Music I – Music and the Film / Television Industries
Richard dines with a film director, songwriter, composer and music supervisor/publisher to discuss the business of writing music for film and television.

Dinner Music II – Indie Marketing
Richard chats with three experts who deal in the online and traditional marketing of their clients and gets the opinion of a journalist on how marketing efforts can capture or quash the interest of the media.

Viewing the webcasts:
"Dinner Music" series webcasts are best viewed using a high-speed Internet connection. All videos are available to view using Windows Media or QuickTime. "Dinner Music II - Indie Marketing" offers the additional option of Flash. If you would like to download Flash Player, go to http://www.adobe.com. To install Windows Media or QuickTime, you can download QuickTime at www.apple.com/quicktime/ or download Windows Media at www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/. If you have problems viewing the videos, audio-only versions (QuickTime or Windows Media) are also available.