Music Supervision

Music Business Trends and Strategies, the first course in this program, will guide you through the critical areas of the music industry, including publishing and licensing, marketing, promotion, and retail best practices. Students will gain a deep understanding of the pressing issues that all musicians, music industry entrepreneurs, managers, and other music business professionals face in these main segments of the music industry, and how to leverage opportunities that the new business provides.

Music Licensing comes next. Licensing powers virtually every use of music, from streaming, to live performance, to music across mixed media, and is one of the most lucrative and rewarding revenue streams for many artists. Discover how to create new avenues for placement of your own music, identify current opportunities for your copyrights, understand the difference between master/publishing revenue streams, and how to use online resources to introduce your music to music supervisors, ad creatives, video game producers, and more. You’ll gain the knowledge needed to monetize your own creative property across various licensing uses, as well as create a summary licensing plan capable of acting as a business plan for your licensing efforts.

Next you will dig into Copyright Law, to examine in detail what copyright is and what it protects, and how copyright is used to monetize artistic works. Through analysis of real-world cases and copyright laws passed in the United States, you will learn what you need to know to successfully protect your own works and avoid infringing on others’ copyrights, as well as the ground rules of copyright, from how to register one to how to protect your works overseas.

Next, you will explore the ins and outs of music supervision with a course titled—accordingly enough—Music Supervision 1. This course progresses from a basic introduction to what a music supervisor does, to how to approach a project creatively or negotiate a complicated series of clearances. Through course materials including exclusive interviews with music supervisors, sound and music editors, and other industry players you will gain insight into the past and present of the job, and learn how to work as part of a production team, license music, stay on budget, make a piece of music work in a production, and much more.

Finally, building on the essential skills acquired from Music Supervision 1, students will continue to expand their fluency in music supervision in Music Supervision 2 by analyzing the use of music in montages, main titles, end credits, trailers, video game promos, and advertising. Students will also learn more advanced music editing techniques working with stems as well as mixing techniques to alter audio in order to make a more convincing live sound for source music usages.

With what you learn from Berklee Online, you will be ready to launch a career in music supervision at any level, from a local film production to a Hollywood blockbuster, as well as understand what music supervisors are looking for from a placement standpoint. Read Less