Musikvergnuegen, Sherman Oaks, Calif., scored the spot "Motorcycle," via Grey Advertising, New York, promoting Canon’s Rebel camera and featuring tennis great Andre Agassi. Walter Werzowa and John Luker composed the jazzy, orchestral music to accompany Agassi competing in a game called "fireball" on a motorcycle. George Jecel of bicoastal The End directed the spot….A contingent of composers from Hank Smith Music, San Francisco—Blaise Smith, Mark Harrison, Michael Lande, Terbo Ted, Piero Ornelas, John Tejada and Sean Heskett—has wrapped an 11-spot Polaroid package directed by Peter Care of bicoastal/international Satellite for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco. The spots showcase Polaroid’s new I-Zone and Joy Cam cameras and sticky film in a variety of fun scenarios, including foosball games and motor scooter rides…. Monster Tracks, a division of Baker Sound Studios, Philadelphia, has produced music out of CCP, Wayne, Pa., for short promotional films touting a new line of Mattel trucks and the Mattel Car Wash….Kim Carnes sang two theme songs for the Cleveland Browns this summer: "Dawg Fever" and "Somebody Let the Dawgs Out." Both were played during local NFL broadcasts on WKYC-TV, Cleveland, and at the stadium during its home games. The tunes were written by company president Randy Wachtler and songwriter Greg Barnhill via 615 Music Productions, Nashville. Micki Barnes of WKYC-TV was the creative services director on that project….The music for food.com’s 16 spots out of Blazing Paradigm, San Francisco, was recorded, edited and mixed at One Union Recording Studios, San Francisco. The simple vignette spots for the online food delivery service feature music sound designed by Andy Newell out of Earwax, San Francisco. Melissa Bolton of bicoastal Shelter Films directed the spots….Brad Music Detroit/ Chicago’s Brad Fairman and Tommy Coster composed the music for the spot "Use Your Head" for client Shower Shine via Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago; director was Tom Kwilosz of There TV, Chicago….Brad Music’s John Nixon and Colton Park Weatherston scored a five-spot package—"Cadillac Eldorado," "Lesson Seville," "Learning Curve DeVille," "Accelerated Program Catera" and "Don’t Let Anything Stop Your Escalade"—for Cadillac Motor Car Division out of DMB&B, Detroit….Hollywood-based Megatrax Production Music has acquired the rights to "The Unlimited Classics Collection," comprised of 105 CDs of music by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. The collection was acquired from Mazur Media in Wedemark, Germany. The deal allows the company to exclusively license the collection for use in film, TV, advertising, audiovisual and multimedia projects throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Central and South America….
Lucy Walker Made A Searing Documentary About Wildfires In 2021; Now, People May Be More Inclined To Listen
When Lucy Walker debuted her harrowing documentary about California wildfires, "Bring Your Own Brigade," at Sundance in 2021, it was during peak COVID. Not the best time for a film on a wholly different scourge.
"It was really hard," the Oscar-nominated filmmaker says now. "I didn't blame people for not wanting to watch a film about the fires in the middle of the pandemic, because it was just too much horror."
And so the film, though acclaimed — it was named one of the 10 best films of the year by the New York Times – didn't reach an audience as large as Walker had hoped, with its urgent display of the human cost of wildfires and its tough, crucial questions for the future.
That could change. Walker thinks people may now be more receptive to her message, given the devastating wildfires that have wrought havoc on Los Angeles itself the past week. Firefighters were preparing on Tuesday to attack new blazes amid warnings that winds combined with severely dry conditions created a " particularly dangerous situation."
"This is probably the moment where it becomes undeniable," she said in an interview.
She added: "It does feel like people are now asking the question that I was asking a few years ago, like, 'Is it safe to live in Los Angeles? And why is this happening, and what can we do about it? And the good news is that there are some things we can do about it. What's tricky is that they're really hard to accomplish."
Documenting the human cost, confronting complacency
In "Bring Your Own Brigade" (available on Paramount+), Walker portrays in sometimes terrifying detail the devastation caused by two wildfires on the same day in 2018, products of the same wind event — the Camp Fire that engulfed the... Read More