What is A Music SupervisOR?
A Music Supervisor heads a music department in-house at a production company or at a music supervision company or works independently as a freelancer with one's own company on a project basis (in-person, online, and | or hybrid). A Music Supervisor has a creative voice and role during post production for film and television but ideally in the early stages of production. A Music Supervisor researches, explores, discovers, acquires, catalogs, and listens to any music genre and sync | places music into visual media such as film, television, advertising, video games, animation, or other media to set an emotive tone to paint and color a scene by elevating in stages: https://songlief.com/definitions
- Meeting
- Spotting (i.e. film or television “rough cut”)
- Breaking Down (i.e. Film Scripts)
- Budgeting
- Selecting
- Clearing
- Pitching | Auditioning
- Negotiating
- Licensing
- Cueing
- Music | Video Editing
MEETING:
Meet | discuss with indie | Hollywood film | television directors and producers to set an emotive tone to paint and color a scene with music.
SPOTTING (FILM | TELEVISION “ROUGH CUT”):
Discover spots to place original score | theme song created by composers | temp songs or other music to enhance scene(s) storytelling and open | closing credits.
BREAKING DOWN (FILM | TELEVISION SCRIPTS):
A film script break down establishes a production procedure for film producers and directors to follow during a film's production process. During an early pre-production process, a film producer performs a basic film script breakdown to determine a schedule and a budget. After, a first assistant director breaks down a film script to design a shooting schedule, a camera shot list for each film scene, stripboards, and scene breakdowns. A film script break down can be achieved manually with color-coded pencils or online by computerized scheduling and screenwriting software. A film production team can determine how long it will take to film a scene by drawing one eight inch lines across each film script page manually or digitally. For example, a Hollywood film script page can be filmed in one minute with five scenes filmed each day. Color-coded production elements can be highlighted manually or digitally during a read through or table read at the end of preproduction before shooting. A break down sheet tags elements for each scene. There are 15+ film script tags not necessarily in this list order: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-break-down-a-script
- Cast Members
- Extras
- Additional Labor
- Props
- Vehicles
- Animals | Livestock | Animal Handler
- Set Dressing | Greenery
- Costumes
- Make-up and Hair
- Stunts
- Music *
- Sound Effects
- Special Effects (SFX) | Mechanical FX
- Visual | Optical Effects (VFX)
- Special Equipment
- Miscellaneous Notes | Scene Notes
- Security
*Music Supervisors break down or read through and spot film scripts during postproduction. A Music Supervisor decides where celebrity A-list, less expensive cover songs, pre-recorded music, or obvious score music (romantic, dramatic, action, etc. etc.) should be placed or replaced (i.e. “temp” or “temporary” songs or with a less costly option) in film scenes. Music creates an emotive background, feature, or theme (i.e. title, opening, or closing scenes). Ideally this process happens earlier, at the beginning, during, and at the end of production. A Music Supervisor selects music based on a film budget. A Music Supervisor performs music clearance in advance during preproduction or before film shooting begins. Scenes may be added or cut and music can be revised accordingly throughout film production until a picture is locked. It means the end of editorial and visual film changes made by a film director and no further additions or cuts are sequenced. A film's character(s) can hear or perform and playback selected music during filming. For example, feature, short, and Hollywood films utilize diegetic sounds (i.e. Character dialogue, object sounds like footsteps, and source music like radio music) that originate internally or within a film's story. Also, non-diegetic sounds (i.e. score music to set a film's emotive tone, sound effects like “nat” or “natural” sounds like birds singing, and voice overs or narration) that originate externally or outside a film's story. Plus, trans-diegetic sounds (i.e. transition sounds between scenes). Sound Engineers arrange these sounds. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/diegetic-sound-and-non-diegetic-sound-whats-the-difference
BUDGETING:
SELECTING:
CLEARING:
PITCHING | AUDITIONING:
NEGOTIATING:
LICENSING:
CUEING:
MUSIC | VIDEO EDITING: