Lol Hammond is a music supervisor for Vertigo films and a composer for films. In terms of his music supervisor credits, he has worked on films such as Bronson, Its all gone Pete Tong and Monsters.
First of all, he discussed the role of the music supervisor and explained that he was responsible for finding composer(s) for films and negotiating with them alongside sourcing tracks for particular scenes and overseeing the sound design. He also stressed that there is a lot of negotiation between labels, artists and publishers to get to license a track and that to be good at being a music supervisor you need to have good negotiation skills and basic social skills. He also explained the process of how he licenses a track by utilising a mixture of asking people and pitching to people and stressed that going directly to an artist can lead to a piece of music being much cheaper or actually agreeing for it to be used. In terms of industry advice, he said that if you wanted to do anything in film both composition or music supervisor wise you should practice on short films as these are very easily watched by industry professionals, related to this is that you should know your stuff in regards to music and not box yourself into just one grenre of music that you just like as it would impact the potential jobs you may get in the future.
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