Presented: March 30, 2011

What you need to know about music cues, rights, and scoring.

Each week, Larry Jordan presents a live, online, training webinar discussing issues related to video post-production; often focused on Apple Final Cut applications. For a list of upcoming webinars, click here.

Duration: 54:28
File size: 188 MB (ZIP file)
Format: QuickTime movie (1280 x 800)

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SPECIAL GUEST TUTORIAL

Guest Host Bruce Nazarian, The Digital Guy, presents this introduction to creative music for the video professional. Bruce has a long career as a musician, producer, and artist manager. He brings all that knowledge to this webinar to help video producers learn the intricacies of adding music to their projects.

This webinar contains three sections:

• What you need to know about music and rights
• A demo on how to score your project using Logic
• An extended Q&A session

Bruce starts with a personal example of how he helped score the film “Air America,” from his new LA studio in the early 1990’s. He then moves into presenting the four different categories of music, along with an extended discussion of what licensing rights producers must negotiate to keep their music legal.

Next, Bruce does a comparative scoring session of one scene from “Air America” showing how the original score was created, then contrasting the emotional impact of the score with a pop song that was used later in the same movie.

He wraps up with an extended Q & A session with seminar participants covering Fair Use, the benefits of Logic vs. Soundtrack Pro, and lots of examples of where obtaining rights is necessary, and where it isn’t, along with the risks you run if rights are not negotiated properly.

Audience Level

No prior knowledge of any software is necessary to view, or understand, this tutorial.

BONUS FEATURE

To quickly find the information you need, we added chapter markers for easy navigation.

Content Outline

• • Presenting the four legal types of music
  • Understanding the client’s needs
  • Understanding the client’s musical “mission”
  • Understanding the legal rights attached to music
  • Comparing royalty-free to composed music
  • Defining Fair Use for music
  • Matching music to emotional beats in visuals
  • Illustrating how to run a spotting session
  • Deciding when to use a song vs. a score
  • Present key musical contact information
  • Comparing Logic to Soundtrack Pro
  • Extended Q & A covering examples of when to license music

• DEMO: Logic Pro interface
• DEMO: How a custom score is built
• DEMO: Deconstructing a music cue
• DEMO: Working with a guide movie
• DEMO: Comparing a song to a score

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