- Writes originals for features, TV (Cable Guy).
- You need a "good handshake" between songs.
- Allocate money for popular music.
- Paid as a package deal-responsible for paying musicians and then he gets the leftovers.
- Composers shape things about what's going on in the scene.
- Reads script and starts writing themes during preproduction, some composers are brought in super deep into post stage.
- Spotting sessions- watch film first time, turn temporary music off, don't want to be influenced. Temp tracks can't stay, hence the name.
- Check out Bernard Herman- driving down street in Psycho.
- Emotional complexity completely governed by music. (John Williams).
- What is the emotional content and how can you express it musically?
- The Contender- "Low Triumph."
- Doesn't go in linear order of film.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Guest Speaker: Larry Grouppe
Film-Music Composer
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Guest Speaker: Doug Wellman
Former USC Film Dept.
- 1. Acquire a Property
- Purchase (both need consideration).
- Option-allows you the right to control or exploit property for specific amount of time for specific amount of consideration.
- 2. Full Script
- Producer is always responsible-acquire breakdown of budget
- Unit Production Manager- Asst. Director, know every component that goes into production.
- Line Producer- relatively the same thing but a lot of below the line experience.
- Producer- creative genious, car salesman, voodoo doctor.
- Below the line can be reduced to days, people, equipment.
- Insurance- certain companies sell specific production insurance policy- media/film/general liability. Per project, short term.
- Read the insurance policy. (Documentary Industrial Commercial Education).
- Animal mortality- even insects.
- Errors and omissions insurance
- Stunt- anything you are not 100% sure your actor can do safely.
- Copyright- right to copy. Property right- like a house/car.
- From the time it exists in a fixed form an idea is not copyrighted.
- Don't tell anyone until it's in a fixed form.
- Mail it to yourself, postmarked, don't unseal.
- Register with writer's guild.
- Parody-sometimes it is easier to pay.
- Directors, writers, screenwriters guild- all have contracts, need permission to use shots or property of all people especially within guilds.
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