Composing : Looking to connect with a music supervisor for help with a small-budget (personal) indie project. by Joe Bell

Hi fellow composers! I need your advice. I started writing a story for my granddaughter about 10 years ago. Two weeks ago I finally finished it, as a screenplay for an 8-episode miniseries. The story is about a girl named Penny. Music is her life, a safe place where she can hide from life and the pain that wants to consume her. But late one September evening she rescues a mysterious stranger from drowning, only to have him totally disrupt her safe and private world, and bid her back to life.

Sounds cool, right? But I can't produce it it the way it needs to be done. There are dozens of well-known songs. They have to be there. I can't just throw an anonymous score on it. It won't work. The music in this story really is one of the main characters, and the story will lose it's soul without it. I need Marching on Versailles playing on the loudspeaker at the Colosseum when the bad guy is defeated. I need Penny remembering Hans Zimmer's "Time" when she's trapped in the catacombs. I need Christina Grimmie's "Think of You" playing during the final barefoot dash through the snow.

I have a voice acting crew doing a full audio drama version of the series. I also have a composer doing an original score where it makes sense. I hope to eventually pair that with a storyboard of some sort. To get any farther than that, I have to either 1) sell the story to one of the big shops, or 2) put together a real budget with crowd-funding. I do have a tiny little conversation going on with Netflix, but it's indirect, and it's not something I'm counting on.

So, if you are a music supervisor and have some ideas on how I can pull this off, I would love to talk to you. Or even if you are not a music supervisor, but the project interests you, let me know. I'm always glad to talk about this story. I think it's very good, and I'd love to get it out there so others can experience it for themselves.