Julia Michels often works as a music supervisor on films where the music itself is a main character. Just look at some of her biggest credits: She won a Grammy for her music supervision work on A Star Is Born<\/em>, a love story between two musicians; she worked on all of the movies in the Pitch Perfect<\/em> series, which follows a college a cappella group into an increasingly competitive field; and she did the music supervision for The Greatest Showman<\/em>, an original musical loosely based on P.T. Barnum, full of singing and dancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So it\u2019s fitting that Michels teaches From Script to Screen: Storytelling through Music<\/a><\/em> as part of Berklee Online\u2019s new Master of Arts in Music Supervision<\/a> program. The course focuses on something she\u2019s been doing throughout her career: using music to help tell a story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Julia Michels:<\/strong> The classic example for me of something that seemed small but became iconic in music supervision is the opening title of the first Devil Wears Prada<\/em> film. That was a movie based on a book that people were excited about. We were crafting the musical landscape and the opening title was a big featured sequence that was going to set the tone of the music. Finding that one song, \u201cSuddenly I See\u201d by KT Tunstall, really landed so well in that opening title sequence and commented on not only the action, but the characters. The lyrics and the music were so popular that it just launched the whole Prada<\/em> series into the zeitgeist of music that people still talk about. The interesting thing about that is that it was all existing music. There was no original music in that movie, but we managed to find this music that defined the Prada<\/em> landscape. Along with the score, I think the music is kind of iconic all around.\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nYou\u2019ve worked on so many projects where the music is inseparable from the way the audiences remember the movies. Can you take us back to one musical decision that looked small at the time, but ended up having a much bigger impact than you expected?\n <\/strong><\/h2>\n