Sound Storytellers of TV and Film: Music Supervisors
HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2018 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Just shy of a year ago, in September of 2017, Susan Jacobs took home the Outstanding Music Supervision Emmy Award at The Creative Arts Emmys for her work on the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies. Her win represented not only a triumph for the veteran TV music supervisor but a significant milestone for an industry that has been instrumental in shaping some of television's most memorable scenes.
A well-placed song can amplify the emotional intensity and resonance of a moment, elevating it to fame. And while a perfect pairing of scene and soundtrack can feel perfectly serendipitous, these moments are almost always the result of someone poring through thousands of tracks and spending hours working with the show's creative team to find exactly the right tune, to say nothing of securing permission to use it. That's the job of the music supervisor, in a nutshell.
Last week, the Grammy's announced a significant category expansion and music supervisors would be considered nominees in the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album category. The efforts of the Guild of Music Supervisors must be recognized. The nonprofit organization was founded in 2010, with the mission of both being a resource for working music supervisors across different visual mediums, including film and TV, and raising awareness of the profession among other sections of the entertainment industry.
The new Emmy and Grammy categories are a major step toward music supervisors receiving the same level of credit and exposure as other behind-the-scenes creative players. In the music industry, everyone has a publicist… everyone except for music supervisors. Dani Miller of The Epoch Advisory specializes in handling publicity and negotiating affairs for clients within the music industry. She says "The goal of PR for music supervisors is to leverage interest into recognition. Then transform that into exposure for music supervisors who are the people spending the long grueling hours finding the perfect songs, hunting down their rights and assisting them to the screen... the people occupying our favorite character's state of mind, the people crafting a musical palette by relying on a heightening sense of emotion - the music supervisors."
After her historic win, Susan Jacobs told Variety, "We're sort of like the bastard children" of the TV and film world. Dani responds: "This makes me sad. Music supervisors are far from bastard children. They're powerful musical storytellers."
The Epoch Advisory's goals are to bring the much-needed recognition of the importance of music supervisors and their vital creative role in one part of a larger storytelling organism.
Dani urges you to recall your all-time favorite soundtrack. Her's is Zach Braff's Garden State: "For me, this soundtrack is compiled of a collection that perfectly complimented the awkward, self-conscious, romance chipped away at in the film. Mostly indie rock from today and yesteryear - The Shins, Simon & Garfunkel - in 2005, the soundtrack snagged a Grammy. No matter how "cool" and "sophisticated" your tastes have become since your younger years, the opening guitar riff of a pop-punk song probably still has the power to transport you back in time. Suddenly, you're wondering what your crush from high school has been up to lately, and whether anything will ever be as good as Gossip Girl again. Don't be ashamed: some Seth Cohen-approved song from The OC soundtrack will do that to anyone."
Media Contact: Dani Miller, The Epoch Advisory, 9176874876, [email protected]
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