Arrow Peretz | Filmmaker Magazine https://filmmakermagazine.com Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources. Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:05:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 “I Wish Film Schools Would Teach Directors and Producers More About Music Rights”: Music Supervisor Lucy Bright https://filmmakermagazine.com/123625-lucy-bright-music-supervisor/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:00:57 +0000 https://filmmakermagazine.com/?p=123625

Early in music supervisor Lucy Bright’s career, she worked at Warner Classics and managed composer Michael Nyman. In 2020 she started Bright Notion Music, her own music publishing company, which has signed composers such as Hildur Guðnadóttir, Oliver Coates, and Anne Nikitin. She is known for critically acclaimed British films such as The Arbor and Slow West and more recently Tár, where her classical understanding and personal familiarity with the composers referenced in the script, helped create the movie that was named Best Picture by several major critics associations. Bright was also awarded the first ever prize for music supervision […]

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“If You Know the Song, and Your Mother Knows the Song, You Can’t Afford the Song”: Music Supervisor Susan Jacobs Demystifies the Profession https://filmmakermagazine.com/123623-susan-jacobs-music-supervisor/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:00:45 +0000 https://filmmakermagazine.com/?p=123623

Over her two-decade-long career, music supervisor and self-confessed music nerd Susan Jacobs has worked with directors such as Robert Altman, Jean-Marc Vallée and Spike Lee. She has worked on notable TV series and films such as I, Tonya, American Hustle, and Little Miss Sunshine. She won the first ever Emmy award for music supervision for her work on Vallée’s Big Little Lies, where she worked without a composer, handpicking specific sounds and musical artists for each character in an attempt to mirror the intricacies of their personal lives. On another Vallée project, Sharp Objects, Jacobs exhibited this aptitude again, building […]

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“I Like the Challenge of Trying to Find a New Approach to Music That Doesn’t Feel Tired”: Music Supervisor Jemma Burns on Creativity and Musicology https://filmmakermagazine.com/123627-jemma-burns-music-supervisor/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:00:23 +0000 https://filmmakermagazine.com/?p=123627

After going to school for film at the University of East London, Jemma Burns began music supervising on TV series Summer Heights High. She has worked on noteworthy film and TV series’ like Okja and Top of the Lake. More recent credits include Heartbreak High, which featured 128 songs of different genres, from pop ballads from musical artists like Dua Lipa and Steve Lacy to more underground drill and trap beats. For the Ari Aster film Beau is Afraid, Burns was able to land Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” for a peculiar and freaky sex scene by being strategic […]

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