This Deal Point Checklist is designed to highlight areas of importance when entering into a Composer/Music Supervisor Agreement for your film project. Attorney Michael Norman Saleman offers these Deal Point Checklists as a courtesy to users of this website. Contact Mr. Saleman if you need help with any of your project’s legal documentation.
Download (Composerexecutive-Music-Supervisor-Agreement.docx
) and use this checklist when negotiating a Composer/Executive Music Supervisor Agreement to assist you in reaching an agreement on major deal points. Return this Word document with the details to facilitate the drafting of your agreements.
- Compensation
- Partial upon signing agreement
- Partial upon commencement of recording musical score
- Partial on completion and delivery
- Start Date
- Services
- write
- compose
- arrange
- orchestrate
- conduct
- engineer
- Picture and trailers
- deliver acceptable score
- cue sheets
- master tapes
- protection dubs
- Soundtrack Album
- Playing Time
- Approvals by Production Company
- Delivery Dates
- Exclusive or non-exclusive to project
- Screen Credit
- Main Titles
- Separate or shared card
- Size of type
- End Titles (Crawl)
- Separate and additional end title credit for songs written by composer
- Paid ads
- Main Titles
- Expenses
- airfare
- lodging
- auto