Music Supervision Film & TV Mastercourse
With Emmy Nominated Music Supervisor Jennifer Pyken
"It's always been a mystery how to become a music supervisor but I'll share with you everything I know from my 20+ years experience. A music supervisor chooses the songs and background music for film, television, games and other media and works with the creative team of directors, producers, and editors to come up with the style, tone and musical vision. It's also budgeting, collaborating with songwriters and musicians, on camera musical performances, working with composers, record labels, music publishers, music clearance, music cue sheets as well as how to organize your day to day work flow. Come join me to learn the ins and outs of music supervision."
- Jennifer Pyken
Music Supervisor for This Is Us, Workaholics, Game Over Man!, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Alias, Lost, Felicity, Las Vegas, Happy Gilmore, The Package, MTV'S Undressed, and Adam Devine's House Party
Emmy-nominated music supervisor
"If you want to learn from the best music sup in the business look no further than Jen Pyken. Every crucial music choice we made in the early seasons of This Is Us - that was all Jen. She’s the absolute best"
Dan Fogelman - Creator, "This is Us"
Meet Jennifer Pyken
Mentors
What is Your Musical Story
Assignment 1: What's your musical story? (Download PDF to be able to save your work)
What is Music Supervision
FREE PREVIEWCreative Process
Film vs TV
Pre-Production - Production - Post-Production
Pre-production, Production, Post-production & Work Flow
My Team
Interview with Michelle Silverman - Music Supervisor
Interview with Ann Kline - Music Supervisor
Assignment 2: Ten Days of Playlists (Download PDF to be able to save your work)
Breaking Down a Script: Spotting Notes
Spotting Notes
Spotting Session
Assignment 3: Spotting Notes (Download PDF to be able to save your work)
Creating the Music Budget
Music Budgeting
Being Flexible
4.3 - Interview with Lindsay Wolfington
Assignment 4: Create a Music Budget (Download PDF to be able to save your work)
Choosing Songs
Putting Songs to Picture
Interview with Kyle Newacheck - Actor, Producer, Director
Let's Talk About Music Libraries
Temp Music
Where Do I Find Music?
This is Us Case Study
Organizing My Music
Interview with Tim Bern of DISCO platform
Assignment 5: Song Ideas (Download PDF to be able to save your work)
Hiring a Composer
Interview with Michael Tavera - Film & TV Composer
Collaborating with a Composer
Interview with Danail Getz - Trailer Composer
Spotify Original Podcast Showstopper - This is Us - ft. Siddhartha Khosla & Jennifer Pyken
Assignment 7: Listen to a Score (Download PDF to be able to save your work)
Limited time offer ends June 15th
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“I’ve worked with Jennifer on multiple series and have known her for over a decade. She worked her creative magic with an efficient budget on all 7 seasons on Workaholics and she helped create the tone and feel of Netflix’s Healing Powers of Dude. She is always my first call on a new production and she should be your first call as well!”
Dan Lubetkin Executive Producer - “Workaholics” & “The Healing Powers of Dude”
The bond between music supervisor and composer is one of the most important aspects of how music gets made for television and film. Jen is a legendary music supervisor, due to her impeccable taste in music and knowing how to find the perfect song for a scene, her smarts in navigating the business & legal side of licensing, and her kindness and ability to relate to anyone. We worked together on 'This is Us' among many other projects, and she has a great amount of knowledge to impart on anyone interested in learning music supervision, even those who are already in the business looking to hone their craft."
Sidd Khosla - Composer "This Is Us"
"I was excited to hear that Jen is offering a class in music supervision. When I started my indie licensing/publishing company 15 years ago, Jen was one of the first supervisors willing to help me fine tune how to most effectively pitch music to her and other music supervisors. I learned which songs to send, which ones not to send, how to share songs and the overall flow of business so that we could become a trusted resource for her. Jennifer is great at figuring out the musical landscape for a tv show and has thus been hired for projects where music plays a very important role. Working primarily with independent artists who own all of their music, it can be life changing for them to have a song considered for any of her projects. "
Lynn Grossman - Secret Road Music Services
"Music choices and placement can be that final piece of secret sauce that transforms and elevates a film or show in a near mystical way. I always found Jen to be a great collaborator who was able to listen, understand and come up with choices that felt organically baked into the world we were trying to set."
Christian Hoffman - Editor Workaholics, Reno 911!, The Package, Key and Peele