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I just write songs at this point.

Yup! I'm from India and like you may already know most of the indian films does consist of a list of songs, i have done for one movie a couple of yrs back when the director requested for some songs to move some stories and montages. i have also produced some songs aswell..

I write mostly Country to Pop Music. Most of my songs are available at: http://reverbnation.com/BrianLeeRobinson I have a lot of Instrumental versions of my songs, as well.

Hi, Greetings from Warsaw! I write songs and instrumentals. You can find them on my profile. Would be happy to cooperate with you. Have a great day! Bart

I do both - songwriting is very gratifying since songs can go places scoring can't and live on beyond one scene ... My latest song from "The Odds" a multi award winning indie movie: https://soundcloud.com/leonard-wolf-3/fireproof

There are lots of ways to do it. The function is normally handled by a "Music Supervisor". Wikipedia gives a great overview. You can wear that hat yourself, get someone else to do it, or get a company to do it. Unless the is in public domain, you will need to get a 'sync license'. And unless you pay a performer yourself to record the music, you will also need a 'master use license'.

Music, especially well known tracks, can often be quite expensive to license. There are web site, often used by wedding videographers, to license covers or original material from lesser known artists, singer sonwriters, etc. This music can often cost $50 to $100 each.

While there are again many ways to pursue this issue, I have parked my music (as a film composer) and have gone with www.musicsupervisor.com.

Remember there are also sites providing royalty free music of various types and these sites are often quite popular with film students and those filmmakers who are either starting off or on little to no budgets.

Best of luck to you. Congratulations!

Hey thank you Joel, Robert and Wesley, Thanks, i'm doing great. :-)

allenn, u must be the member in IPRS n PPL, INDIAN PERFORMING RIGHTS SOCIETY, PONOGRAPHICS PERFORMANCE LIMITED.