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Profiles of projects, insights and articles from experts, perspectives for all post toasties ... MUSIC SUPERVISORS—Selling the Movie, Selling the Song, by David John Farinella. The role and importance of music supervisors has grown exponentially each decade. In the early 1970s, when Martin Scorsese pulled together the music for the movie Mean Streets on his own, it was generally up to the director to negotiate with a band’s A&R representative for song rights. The Chris Rock Show—Comedy and Music on Centerstage, by Eric Rudolph. The Chris Rock Show used what was essentially a small touring package for the in-studio musical sound reinforcement, and there was a definite method to the seemingly audio overkill. “The Chris Rock Show was the closest thing [I’ve done in television] to a real, live stage show,” says FOH engineer Paul Cohen. Scoring to Survive—Russ Landau Tracks the Hit CBS Series, by David John Farinella. Russ Landau is the man responsible for coming up with the haunting introductory score to last season’s smash CBS hit Survivor. To hear him explain it, the process wasn’t easy, and all he knew was that it had to be big.		To: Directors From: Your Sound Department, by John Coffey. We, the sound crew, are the ones that you depend on to create and protect your original sound tracks during production. Yet today’s production sound departments face more problems and greater apathy than ever before. Hollywood Business—Consolidation Hits the Post-Production Services Industry, by Roger Maycock. For the past few years, one corporation after another has sought to acquire its competitors, usually in order to strengthen market position in today’s rough-and-tumble business climate. Sound with Character—Capturing Performance in Effects Recording, by Michael Axinn. It takes imagination, musicality, ingenuity and technical know-how to find the right gadget, the right machine or the right location and then capture it in a compelling manner.