Uncategorized 10:37 pm
Gary Calamar is one of my favorite music supervisors. He has been the supervisor on numerous hit shows that require many different styles of music. Gary has been, and still is the supervisor for shows like: Entourage, True Blood, Dexter, Weeds, House, and Six Feet Under. 
Here’s a video of Gary and Garth Trinidad (music supervisor) talking about their job on Entourage. It is very telling of how hard it is to get the licensing for songs when on this type of project.
Uncategorized 10:19 pm
So this blog is going to be all about music supervision. But some of you don’t know what the hell music supervision is….so I’ll tell you. Music supervisors are the people that first: are contracted to work on a film or show. Second: are given a budget by their studio. Third (this is the best part): go through all different genres and styles of music and choose the best songs that fit the film or show. Fourth (this is the hard part): bargain with the publishers of the songs going to be used to get the licensing, hoping they don’t ask for more than what you can afford from the budget. And finally, the last thing music supervisors do is: using their artistic ability, fit the songs to the film to give emotional feelings to various scenes and then send their finished work into the studio.
