Greg Debonne (Licensing Music for TV and Film)

Description: In this music licensing masterclass, music supervisor Greg Debonne walks you through a variety of important considerations for composing, producing and licensing music for TV and film. Greg will help you understand what music supervisors are looking for, how to interpret some common contractual language, how to prepare your files, the importance of tagging, which alternate mixes you should prepare and more.

Topics Covered: understanding your target demographic, composing or submitting music to the appropriate project, developing a collection of cues for general licensing, using consistent meter and phrasing to make the editor’s job easier, formatting your files properly, using 48000 sample rate, understanding bit depth and file type, meta-tagging your files correctly, doing your research, providing alternate mixes and stems of your music, licensing considerations, understanding master recording and synchronization licenses, maintaining a sensible approaches to your licensing negotiations, etc.

Greg Debonne has supervised music programming for:

I Used to Be Fat, Roseanne’s Nuts, My Cat from Hell, Flying Wild Alaska, Heartland Thunder, 4th and Long, Hammertime, Tough Love, Confessions of a Teen Idol, Reality Bites Back, I Know My Kid’s a Star, Scott Baio Is 45… And Single, The Pickup Artist, Gay, Straight or Taken?, Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead, Score, Wanna Come In?