Sound for Picture
The location sound recordist utilizes this type of microphone as part of their tool kit on set to capture audio.
What is a Shotgun Microphone?
This person would handle the advance for an artist who is going on tour.
Who is the tour manager?
This person writes the music for a film.
Who is the composer?
The acronym MIDI stands for this.
What is Music Instrument Digital Interface?
These are the two underlying (copy)rights that exist for every piece of commercially released music.
What are the Composition (publishing) and the Master Recording (master)
This person creates and records sound effects to match the action on screen.
Who is the Foley Artist?
This person is responsible for mixing and balancing all of the sound that the performers hear at a concert.
Who is the Monitor Engineer?
This is the music written specifically for a film to serve and enhance the story.
What is a score?
This type of MIDI editor allows you to see your composition written out in musical notation (i.e. sheet music)
What is the notation editor?
A film producer would need to acquire this type of license from me in order to use a piece of music that I wrote and own the rights to in their movie.
What is a synch license?
ADR is short for this.
What is Automated Dialog Replacement?
This person is responsible for mixing and balancing all of the sound that the audience hear at a concert.
Who is the Front-of-House Engineer?
This process involves assisting the film composer in piecing together different. parts, or “Sketches”, of a film score.
What is Orchestration?
This type of MIDI hardware can send MIDI messages to control other MIDI devices but is not able to generate sound.
What is a MIDI controller?
This type of company signs deals with songwriters and composers to represent them and the music that they write.
Who is a music publisher?
These are the four sonic elements in a motion picture.
What are Dialog, Music, Foley, and Sound Effects?
This is the part of the contract that covers preferred catering and technical spec details.
What is a Rider?
This process involves transposing the separate pieces of a film score for each instrument.
What is copying?
MIDI is often used to compose this part of a film before it is fully recorded.
What is the score?
This sector of licensing generates the most royalties.
What is performance?
What is diegetic?
This process is usually performed at the end of a concert and involves the venue staff and artist representative accounting for all of the money from tickets and bar sales and the venue paying the artist representative what the artist is owed according to their contract.
What is the settlement?
This person is in charge of selecting songs and negotiating deals to license songs that are used in movies or movie soundtracks that were not part of the movies score.
Who is the music supervisor?
This process allows you to align your MIDI composition in perfect timing with the tempo of your composition.
What is quantizing?
The collection of exclusive rights granted to copyright owners are called this.
What are the Bundle of Rights?