Music in film and video productions / Dan Carlin, Sr.

Author/creator Carlin, Dan
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Focal Press, ©1991.
Descriptionxv, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Music and the stages of a production. The primary types of film and video music ; Preproduction ; Production ; Postproduction -- Credit titles. Knowing who everybody is ; Executive producer ; Line producer ; Director ; Associate producer ; Composer ; Choreographer ; Script supervisor ; Picture editor ; Postproduction supervisor ; Music supervisor ; Music coordinator ; Music contractor ; Music editor ; Production mixer ; Music engineer ; Music recordist -- Fundamentals of film music and music. The origins of film music ; Magnetic recording tape ; Synchronous pulse ; Analog versus digital recording ; Film to video transfer ; Tools and track ; Videotape ; Anatomy of videotape -- Prescore. The advantages of a prescore ; Prescore for dance routines ; Location prescoring ; Prescore dub down ; A primer of music terms for film and video -- Playbacks. Understanding playbacks ; Playbacks on production ; Nagra recorders ; Playbacks for dance routines ; Speaker systems ; Metronome playbacks ; Source music for playbacks ; Coding playbacks -- Live recording on the set. Challenges of live recording ; Simple live recording: vocals ; Live recording: music -- The composer. Selecting a composer ; Reading the script ; The composer on location ; The composer in postproduction ; The spotting session ; Recording time ; The music contractor ; Writing the score ; Electronics ; The lonely composer -- The music editor. Duties of the music editor ; Timing to film ; Timing to video ; Spotting notes ; Breakdown notes ; The Knudsen book ; Preparing for the scoring stage ; Optical click tracks ; Streamers and punch clusters ; Music editing systems for videotape ; The Newman system -- The scoring stage. Characteristics of a scoring stage ; Microphone setup ; The recording booth ; The music engineer ; The recordist ; Track assignments ; The conductor ; The musicians ; Recording ; Producers and directors ; The composer as musician ; Electronic instruments ; Metronomic tempo machines ; Video metronomic clicks ; The down beat ; Union regulations -- The dub down stage. When to use a dub down ; The dub down ; A stereo dub down ; Surround sound ; Album dub down -- Preparation for rerecording or sweetening. Getting it all together ; Building units ; Source music ; The video prelay stage ; The sweetening stage ; Sound effects and dialogue -- The recording and sweetening stage. The stage ; The Hollywood system ; The New York system ; The rerecording ; Stereo rerecording ; The producer at the rerecording ; The composer at the rerecording ; The underscore music ; Domestic version ; Foreign version ; Stereo sound in release prints -- Music report. The basic format ; ASCAP and BMI ; Revenue and distribution ; Music publishing ; Two publishing companies -- Tracking. Why use tracking ; Diplomacy of selecting music ; Selection of music ; Picking cues ; Building the temporary tracks ; Pitfalls of tracking -- Sync license. Getting the sync license ; Commercial recordings ; Mechanicals ; Public domain ; Music libraries -- Afterword -- Glossary.
Abstract This book looks into the world of msuic and provides a unique insight that students, apprentice sound editors, musicians, and film and video professionals in all fields will find invaluable. Music is defined and explored in two basic categories: underscore and source. It introduces the reader to the composer, the music editor, the scoring stage, sound mixing, and sound rerecording. Other topics include: credit titles, prescore, live recording on the set, the dub down stage, the music report, tracking, and sync licenses. This book investigates preproduction, production, and postproduction for different approaches to dealing effectively with music.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 90040741
ISBN0240800095
ISBN9780240800097 (paperback)

Availability

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk MT737 .C3 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold