A Day At Alan Ett Creative Group

I have made the travel to LA as an intern for Alan Ett Creative Group which has three companies under that one “parent name”.

I work mostly with Opus 1 Music Library which is a production music library that supplies all types of media with music. I usually roll into work at 8:30 and get going on casting which consists of me listening back to music that has recently been added to our library and inputting it into FileMaker Pro by Genre, Mood, Instrumentation, and Tempo. We have four of our own catalogs and represent atleast 10-12 others. I do a ton with royalty administration, song registration, and accounting. I work with a very sharp lady named Emily who tracks all of the songs and makes sure that the company is getting paid what it should be. I register songs and composers with Performance Rights Societies and have learned a TON about the relationship between Publishers and Sub-Publishers.

At another company called Media City Sound, I have had the opportunity to sit-in on spotting sessions where a music supervisor watches down a tv show or movie that has no music and “spots” the music over the video to help tell the story and convey the necessary emotions. Sometimes there is a “temp” score to help the MS know which direction the production studio wants them to go with the music and sometimes not. I’ve also sat in on the music editing in which the music editor takes the spotted music and edits it down to fit the frames of video and further tell the story through the music that the Music Supervisor has chosen. Next was into the dialogue editing and sound fx editing studios where it’s all about making things one solid level and editing out any unwanted pieces of audio. And of course adding the effects that should be there but aren’t.

I’ve gotten to talk to and get to know Scott Liggett who is an Emmy Award winning producer for Alan Ett Music Group.

I’ve recently helped create the companies new International version of their main AHCD catalog which was a huge project. Linking composer and publisher info on over 9,500 tracks and a ton more.

Although this is perhaps vague it is a glimpse into my every day.

~ by Timothy Bjorkman on March 24, 2008.