The guest lecture on 7/11/16 was given by Vertigo’s Music Superviser, Lol Hammond. Lol has worked on several popular films such as It’s All Gone Pete Tong, The Football Factory, Monsters and London To Brighton. Lol gave an interesting insight into what it’s like to work in a big-budget production company from an audio perspective and the intricacies of gaining rights to use music from record labels.

Whilst my audio project is not related to film music it was interesting to find out how industries work in terms of sourcing music and who gets royalties from doing so. It was also interesting to see how few music supervisors there are spread around each film production company, making it seem like quite a close-knit community. This is in some ways similar to the world of a music producer, with many different artists’ production being spread between only a few different producers.