The line-up of the Comic-Con panel Behind the Music with CW3PR: Perfect Sound for TV & Film has been announced. The event will highlight singer and composer collaborations essential to creating poignant and memorable music in TV and film. Panelists will discuss how these dynamic partnerships work and how a singer’s voice can amplify an original score. Panelists include composers Robert Duncan (Castle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the upcoming Last Resort), Trevor Morris (Immortals, The Borgias, The Tudors) and Danny Jacob (Disney’s Phineas and Ferb, the Lilo and Stitch TV series), as well as singers Lisbeth Scott (True Blood, Avatar, Iron Man 2) and Laura Dickinson (Phineas and Ferb, Universal Pictures’ upcoming Pitch Perfect). More surprise panelists will be announced next week. The panel will be moderated by Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, creators of Disney’s Phineas and Ferb, and will take place on Sunday, July 15 from 3:00-4:00pm at the San Diego Convention Center Room 7AB.
Another panel that will take place during the convention is Comic-Con’s Favorite Projects Go Interactive. Attendees will learn about the art of video game scoring, the differences between writing for film, television and games and how composing for game titles have changed over the years. The panelists include Jim Dooley (Epic Mickey, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Sony’s SOCOM series), Gordy Haab (Star Wars: The Old Republic, Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings), David Ari Leon (Contre Jour, Woody Woodpecker), Gerard Marino (God of War series, The Amazing Spider-Man); Kyle Newmaster (Kinect Star Wars) and Jeremy Soule (The Elder Scrolls series, EA’s Harry Potter series). The event will take place on Thursday, July 12 from 7:00-8:00pm in the convention center room 25ABC.
Also check out our previous article for another film music-related panel at Comic-Con. In addition, composer Jesper Kyd (Assassin’s Creed) will take part in a Q&A following the world premiere screening of Metal Hurlant Chronicles, the upcoming science fiction live-actionTV adaptation of stories from the magazine that gave birth in the U.S. to Heavy Metal. Among the other participants of the Q&A are director Guillaume Lubrano, actors Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight), James Marsters (Buffy) and Darren Shahlavi (Watchmen), as well as fight choreographer Larnell Stovall (Mortal Kombat). The event takes place on Saturday, July 14 at 5:45-6:45 in Room 6DE.
