ITC VISUAL PANELS

IN THE CITY ‘VISUAL’ PANELS ANNOUNCED

We are delighted to announce a series of debates looking into the visual side of the music industry, including music in computer games, the evolution of the music video, contemporary music photography and music filmmaking, featuring some of the most important names in their respective fields.

NO TIME TO THINK – MAKING THE MUSIC VIDEO

You’ve got £5K in a budget and a label who want a video making that looks £30K. The band want to look a certain way, the label are strict, there is a room full of people to impress, pressure is on and the band is shit faced...

This is making a music video.

On this panel we’ll hear the trials and tribulations of creating the music video from dealing with the bands and labels to the often changing brief and the time constraints. Online video blogging and videos of bands on downtime have changed the way we are able to perceive the band. Has this changed the way we make the video? Can you really get away with a tiny budget and a post on YouTube?

Featuring:
Helienne Lindvall Journalist, www.guardian.co.uk (Moderator)
Toby Hyde Managing Director & Co-Owner, Factory Films
Trudy Bellinger Crossroads Films, Director (Sugababes, The Saturdays, Girls Aloud)
Tim Pope Director (The Cure, David Bowie, Neil Young, Kaiser Chiefs)
Otis Bell OB Management

GOD! SHOW ME MAGIC. THE STORY OF CREATION RECORDS

Ride, Primal Scream, Oasis, Teenage Fanclub, Super Furries, Jesus and Mary Chain and on and on - between 1983 and 1999 Creation Records were the Motown of the indie generation, all big bands, big stories and big personalities.

Live at ITC Steve Lamacq discusses the development behind ‘Upside Down. The Story of Creation Records’, director Danny O’Connor and the curator of the films “live” association Ride’s Mark Gardner. How do you commit the rollercoaster that was Creation to film? Plus they’ll be explaining how and why they made the choice to treat the film of the label like a band – and then take the whole kit and caboodle out on tour. And fingers crossed we’ll see some exclusive footage of the film and, we’re hoping, hear more than the odd interesting anecdote from those times of our lives.

Featuring:
Steve Lamacq Broadcaster and DJ, BBC 6Music
Danny O’Connor Documentary Maker
Mark Gardener Recording Artist, Ride

THE ITC PHOTOGRAPHY KEYNOTE

Jody Goodall moderates this extended session with the legendary Gered Mankowitz.

Part 1

The sound and the vision go hand in hand in this game. You hear the chord, close your eyes and usually the image that pops into your head is the work of a person like Gered.

But what attributes make that photograph work? How do you capture something so indefinable as a vibe in something as instant as a photograph? And in a world where we’re ALL music photographers now where is the art and craft going to come from now?

On stage with Gered will be Jill Furmanovsky, Andrew Whitton and Tim Cochrane, discussing this and the difference between photographing bands live and in portrait. Because you photograph bands at a gig, does that make you a rock photographer? We’ll also look at the different ways that the young and old generations work.

Part 2

Gered runs through some of his favourite pictures and tells you a bit of the stories behind them. Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithful, Oasis….. yeah you’ve probably heard of them.

OK COMPUTER? PUTTING MUSIC IN COMPUTER GAMES

The various gaming genres all rely on music in some shape or form. If you aren’t jumping around your living room to The Beatles Rock Band game you’re probably smashing cars about to a belting tune. An exclusive computer games sync panel, we’ll be seeing spanking new game footage plus hearing about the new ways music will immerse your gaming world. If you’ve ever wanted to get your music in a game, then this is a must see panel.

Featuring:
Helienne Lindvall Journalist, www.guardian.co.uk (Moderator)
Eric Hobson Connect 2 Media
John Sanderson Managing Director, Pit Stop Productions Ltd
Todd Eckert Director North America, Eutechnyx. Producer of Joy Division film “Control”
Theo Seffusatti General Manager, Warp Music Publishing
Ed Bartlett Exec Vice President, The In Game Advertising Int'l Group
Gary Clay Marketing Manager EMEA, Xbox 360

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REGISTER FOR ITC

To register as a delegate for In The City for £350 plus VAT click here.

We’re doing day passes as well this year, which you can also find here, but don’t forget you’ll need a wristband for the live gigs if you go down this route. Conveniently, you can find those here - though if you’re getting a full delegate pass don’t worry about that.

Keynotes confirmed so far include: Mike Smith, Mark Ronson, John Harris, Anthony Volodkin, Sean Adams, Simon Raymonde, Pat Nevin, Gered Mankowitz as well as speakers from Seatwave, Soundcloud, Songkick and many, many more.

ITC UNSIGNED 2009

After much agonising, wailing and the occasional gnashing of teeth we’ve arrived at the final list. The ones who we think you’ll be hearing a hell of a lot more from over the next few years.

You can hear them in all their glory on the ITC Unsigned Album 2009, available from tomorrow on iTunes and via various other fine digital retailers.

Delegates remember, you get a code for your copy, which we’ll be mailing out to you the week before ITC.