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I want to accept more pitches and publish more stories, though. I want to publish so much good music writing that we are bathing in a digital ocean of perfect word choices and beautifully crafted metaphors about songs. So in my small effort to combat this bad pitching epidemic, here are a few tips that might help you not blow it with editors.
Different pitches have different lifespans. A long, well-researched investigative piece has the potential to live on forever and ever in the ethers of the interwebs. But something quick and dumb about the Left Shark or escaped llamas has a shelf-life of a day, if that. Send a pitch about a day-old meme and prepare to have your email printed out and passed around the Secret Society of Editors to be mocked while you are forever branded as that freelancer who wanted to write something about the IKEA monkey.
Jim Harrison is an award-winning music editor, whose credits comprise The Greatest Showman, The Jungle Book, Houdini, Ice Age: Collision Course, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Purple Rain and many more.
In this interview Jim talks to us about the music editing process between pop and classical music for The Greatest Showman, as well as the challenges he and his team faced to make the soundtrack fluid and cohesive. Furthermore, and in great detail, he shares with us his experience with both the business and the artistic sides of music editing.
In preparation for the dub, after final scoring, mixing down the score, we then cut and prepare our final sessions using Pro Tools. In addition, we do any final conforming; we also cut song masters and improve any edits from editorial if needed. In the case of The Greatest Showman, the files were so big that we had separate Pro Tools sessions because Jen Monnar was working night and day on songs and I was working night and day on the score. This also allowed us to go to various overdub sessions and such while the other person continues to work on their particular area.
Once the film is completed, we create the final print master for the film, in addition to an M&E (music and effects) pass that is utilized in foreign territories so they can create various versions of the movie in different languages.
DS: The music of The Greatest Showman gathers both classical and pop music. Could you comment on the complexity of editing both genres as a means of building a cohesive support to the narrative?
The final dubbing / mixing process began the beginning of November 2017. We had only 3 weeks to mix the film. During this time, Jen Monnar was continuing to update the final song mixes, in addition was music editor Peter Myles, who worked with editorial on the final lip-sync for the on-camera performances. On the score front, we continued to have orchestral sessions on the Twentieth Century Fox scoring stage, which conveniently was in the next building close to the dubbing stage. As a music editor, I attended both the final dub and additional recording sessions to ensure that all of the latest versions of music cues were being addressed, mixed down, and prepared for the dubbing stage.
In general, most final dubs can take approximately two weeks to six weeks depending on budget and the task on hand. In the case of The Greatest Showman, three weeks was short, but with the help of the amazing crew, we pulled together and helped create a film that we were all proud of.
DS: The director envisions how the story is going to be, and the film editor assembles it. Is this relationship similar to that of the composer and the music editor, in this case John Debney and yourself?
I would say that the difference between a musical and regular film, with just underscore for instance, is the amount of session maintenance in the tracking of sessions involved for each recording event, so it does amp up the workload. But, technically, the work is the same.
JH: Jon Favreau, the director, wanted to do something a little more modern but we used a little bit of the original themes. The original Jungle Book was more of a classical score and Jon wanted the new one to have more contemporary elements to it. It was also a little bit darker than the original, which allowed us to take advantage by using percussion and driving orchestra, as well as sinister sounds.
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This is very interesting. I am a freshman Recording Arts major/Music Minor at Loyola Marymount University. I am very interested in becoming a music editor. I wanted to know your advice if I did want to pursue that. I looked at your body of work and it is incredible.
I can't for the life of me figure out how sound effects or music editing works! Does anyone have any information anywhere? I suspect that if I already knew how any other tracker worked I would be able to understand this, but I do not.
The sfx editor is quite easy to use. In graph mode you have choose the instrument (the small figures) and "draw" the sound and its volume on the 2 bar charts.
I did not try the tracker for now, but I planed to. I believe it's like the trackers we had on Amiga.
the sfx editor allows you to assemble 1-page-sequences of music. you enter notes there including gain level, effect and sound for each note (thats one line then). on top you have speed for the whole sfx and an option for looping.
It took me a little while to realize that the same set of patterns can be used for sound effects or music, so you can use either editor to make music. I kind of prefer the visual editor for writing out notes but the tracker-style editor lets you use the keyboard as a piano which can be useful.
@movAX13h: I'm not worried about breaking stuff :P I just can't even figure out how to hear what I've done. I've pressed all the buttons and read the manual. I will post another question after I've carefully read these answers and looked at the manual that Mozz posted.
frew, load up one of the demo songs (I think woo.p8 was one of them) and see what they did. You can make up to 64 tracks of 32 notes in the fourth tab (switch mode to tracker in the upper left, the grid icon), then assemble those measures in the fifth tab into the four audio channels of the PICO-8.
Left and right click are used a lot to increment/decrement the pattern #, spd is the delay (starts at 1 and makes almost no sound at this speed, set it to 16 for most music), oct is the octave (0-3), the wave icons are instruments, and the other icons are effects.
Music editors are responsible for all the music in a film or TV production, including the soundtrack and any music created by the composer. The extent of their role varies considerably depending on the type of production concerned.
On a medium-budget film, they usually start work while the film is being edited. They work with the director to decide on the purpose of the music, find a style to suit the story and mark the points in the film where music is required (spotting). Then they develop the temp (temporary) score.
Music editors then work closely with a composer, who is usually appointed by the director, and who composes the music using the temp score as a template. The temp score is also used by the film editors to achieve the right tempo with the cut. Music editors often act as a bridge between the sound and picture teams.
They attend all recording sessions, helping with any revisions and design a 'click track' which is used to help the musicians achieve synchronisation with the movie. Working with a specialist music mixer, they create different mixes, lay down the tracks and fit them exactly to the picture, ready for the final mix or dub.
One of the final tasks for music editors on films is preparing the cue sheet - a detailed breakdown of all the music featured on soundtracks. This is sent to the Performing Rights Society and all exhibitors so that royalties can be paid every time the film is screened.
Composers write original music. They write themes to pictures and deal with any revisions, collaborating with the editor. Composers prepare the score, usually on midi files, for the orchestrator and copyist. They also prepare the score's electronic aspects for the recording sessions and deliver the score to the producer, together with all recordable media.
Music agents are responsible for representing their clients, keeping up to date with the industry, finding out what productions are greenlit or in development and cultivating relationships with producers and directors. They supervise contracts, negotiate fees and act as a buffer during contractual negotiations. They also promote clients' work and manage their showreels. Music agents often look for new clients to complement their existing roster.
Music editors are usually graduates in sound technology or music. After graduating, they may work their way up the post-production sound department, starting as runners, training as assistants and progressing to re-recording mixers or sound editors. See the post-production runner job profile for details of how to get in.
At school or college:
If you want to go to university, A-levels or Highers music, film studies, media studies or English are useful. Or you might want to take a Level 3 OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma/Extended Diploma in Performing Arts.
Start composing and recording:
Write your own original compositions. Collaborate with friends making videos and write the score. You will learn from doing this and you can build your sound portfolio which will impress admissions tutors and employers.
Network:
Go to ScreenSkills events, especially Open Doors where you can meet people who work in the industry. Give people in post-production your details and ask if you can do work experience.