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Morgan Rhodes shares insight How to be a music supervisor? https://www.marketplace.org/2018/12/26/life/how-be/how-be-music-supervisor
How To Be A Music Supervisor
by Janet Nguyen
December 26, 2018
An iconic TV or movie moment is often more
than great acting or direction: the right music at just the right moment
can heighten emotions, reveal what the dialogue doesn't, and push the
story forward.
But while the actors who
performed the scene and the musicians who played the song might get all
the glory, there was someone who dug through the record crates to find
the perfect song for that moment. They’re called music supervisors, and Morgan Rhodes is an expert at it. Her job not only includes sourcing the songs for a given work, but securing the rights to use them.
She’s
chosen music for the critically acclaimed 2014 film “Selma,” the indie
movie “Middle of Nowhere,” Netflix’s “Dear White People,” and the OWN TV
show “Queen Sugar.”
Rhodes' career
began when director Ava DuVernay heard an audition of hers for a radio
show. DuVernay then asked if she’d be interested in music supervising
“Middle of Nowhere,” which eventually made it to the Sundance Film
Festival.
“That moment sitting in
Sundance, watching that film with people and having them react to the
music, was the moment I thought: maybe I could do this,” Rhodes said. “I
don't want to have to tell my mother that I went to college for
nothing."
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