Music and cues
You don’t have a cue list in Mula yet. Once you do, Mula checks every cue’s media, term, and territory against where Low Tide is going, and it checks now, in prep, because a scene can still be rewritten and a cue can still be swapped. Waiting until delivery only tells you after the swap stops being free.
A licence Mula can’t read.
UnreadNobody’s. Some scans don’t carry real text, and a photo of a contract is one of them.
Nobody knows what that cue clears until it’s read, so it stays out of the check below until it is. Upload a clearer copy and Mula reads it the same way.
Checked against a distributor, Sep 3. A distributor’s schedule asks for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright, and that’s the line every cue below is measured against.
Twelve cues in the script
12 checkedEight already clear it. Two wait on the composer’s agreement. Two don’t, and that’s the rest of this screen.
- Main titleScore, composed for the film. Waits on the composer’s agreementOut for signature since Sep 1
- Kitchen radioCleared for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright. Clears your distributor
- Driving northCleared for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright. Clears your distributor
- The pier at nightCleared for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright. Clears your distributor
- Bungalow, lateCleared for festival exhibition only, worldwide, two years. Festival only
- Motel roomCleared for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright. Clears your distributor
- Morning swimCleared for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright. Clears your distributor
- The argumentCleared for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright. Clears your distributor
- Warehouse partyCleared for festival exhibition only, worldwide, two years. Festival only
- Last callCleared for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright. Clears your distributor
- Beach, dawnCleared for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright. Clears your distributor
- End creditsScore, composed for the film. Waits on the composer’s agreementOut for signature since Sep 1
Two of them are festival-only? Okay, we swap them now, not in delivery.
Bungalow, late plays on camera at the Elysian Park bungalow. Warehouse party plays on camera at the Vernon warehouse. Both locations shoot in your first three days, so both cues are already committed the moment the first truck rolls.
Festival exhibition only, worldwide, two years
All media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright
A festival licence answers a festival and nothing else, so it doesn’t answer what a distributor is asking for. You have three ways to handle it, and none of them have a price yet:
- 1Go back and re-license both cues for all media, worldwide, for the life of the copyright.
- 2Swap one or both for a cue that’s already cleared.
- 3Shoot the scene without music playing, and drop a cue in later.
The cue sheet itself, the document your distributor actually asks for, still waits on picture lock. That doesn’t change no matter which way these two go.