What does being a music supervisor actually entail?
Music supervision in its true sense covers a whole load of bases. If you’re doing everything on a movie, then music supervision deals with any on-camera pieces, putting musicians on set if need be, and by [doing] any pre-records in studio before they go on set. We also negotiate with any actors or actresses who sing or perform. Most importantly, if they’re performing a really well-known song in a film, we have to pre-clear that song. Is pre-recording a common thing? If there is stuff in shot, the best way to do it, for editing purposes, is to pre-record the track in studio and then have everybody mime to it on set. It enables them to chop it around, whereas if you record it live on set, the sound quality is normally pretty poor [and] someone usually fucks up somewhere along the line! I don’t think I’ve worked on any film where we’ve recorded live on set; everything has been pre-recorded. Even if it’s for a film where it’s supposed to be a concert, like Stoned, the Brian Jones film, whi
