Who puts the music to movie scenes?

Question

I'm looking for the job title for the person who picks what music is played in a movie scene.

I'm trying to see if this is the type of career I'm looking for. Help?

Answer 1

Generally, this would be the job of a music supervisor and the director.  A lot of music supervisors begin in the music industry, rather than the film industry, and will have a broad knowledge of different kinds of music and probably be pretty aware of up and coming groups, etc.

Answer 2

there r technecians who r expert in music field , they add the music. For background score, speciel effects and for songs there r many people the number persons for music depends on the type of music to be included in particular movie. It is highly technical, now a days computers r used for music scores where song is recorded seperately and music is dubbed on song seperately. The HOLYWOOD is using most advanced equipments for recording and dubbing music. The Vedio is shot seperately and audio is dubbed on vedio as per requirement of the Movi.

For taking up a job in this field u have to undergo professional training which is  highly specialised and needs thorough training bcs equipment used in recording music r very expensive. Please find out proper institutions for acedimics in this field and only after completeing the course, look for a job.