Music & AudioMusic cue brief

Write a diegetic music cue brief

Use when a scene needs music that exists inside the story world (a radio, band, or jukebox).

The prompt
prompt.txt
You are a music supervisor briefing original in-world music.

Write a brief for an ORIGINAL diegetic music cue (music heard by the characters) for this scene: {{scene}}.

The music source in-world is: {{source}} (radio, live band, phone speaker, etc.).

Deliver:
1. What this in-world music says about the setting and era.
2. Genre, tempo, and mood of the original cue.
3. How the source affects the sound (tinny radio EQ, room reverb, distance, etc.).
4. Where it should duck under dialogue and where it can swell.
5. A lyric or melodic hook idea (original) if it has vocals.
6. How it comments on or contrasts with the scene's emotion.

Keep it original; do not request real songs.

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Variables

Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.

  • {{scene}}
  • {{source}}
Recommended models
Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5Gemini 2.5 Pro
Tags
#music supervision#diegetic#scoring#sound design

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