Aug 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Strategically Rejecting Jobs As soon as you can financially afford it, start rejecting jobs that don’t fit into your personal profile and that you wouldn’t enjoy at all and just do them for the money or jobs that are underpaid. This will have several effects: creative...
Aug 12, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Working at Home Working at home by your own time schedules can in theory be a very nice way of working but can in reality cause quite a bit of problems. Quite a few composers suffer from a lack of concentration, being constantly distracted and not really being able to...
Aug 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Difficulty of Networking at Networking Events Very often, business connections are not made in places where they are expected to be made (e.g. business meetings, fairs, festivals etc.) but rather in places where you normally won’t expect them. The simple reason...
Jul 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The “Lucky Punch” Project A career as a media composer is incredibly unlikely to launch like a rocket out of nowhere. And yet there are many composers who (secretly) wait for the call from a blockbuster director offering them a job that is several levels...
Jul 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Stay in Touch With Clients Taking care of your important business contacts and keeping the contact alive is a very important thing to do. This is especially important when you haven’t worked with them for a while. Producers/directors often have so many things on their...
Jul 15, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Price Dumping Between Composers Learn to say no. The entertainment business unfortunately is a field where price dumping is everyday’s business. Unfortunately, even among composers there is often a lack of decency regarding such issues. Some composers will fight to...
