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Brian,

I am confident that I don't have enough quality songs at this point in the process. I am also very confident that a large number of songs are excellent and a great fit for their respective scenes.

There have been submissions for all 27 temp cues. A rough count of songs submitted is about 800 songs. After filtering out songs that were nowhere near the requirements outlined in the music brief, the director received about 650 songs to review. In my creative opinion, there are some songs that, despite being great songs, are not a perfect fit for the scene. However, I'm letting the director review all of the submissions and then he'll let me know which songs he wants to move forward with and which cues still need to be replaced.

Once I know which cues still need to be replaced, I'll know which cues to include in the new music brief for the 2nd round of submissions.

One thing that I've learned over the years is to give a director many choices for each scene. This tends to help break the "temp love" for the cues that are currently in the film. It also opens up the creative thinking that can help me get a better description of what he/she wants for each scene. They can tell me which songs don't work and which ones could work and that sets up parameters for me to use to better filter the new submissions.

I'm looking forward to the next round and I will let everyone know when that time comes.