Jul 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Unpredictable Income One of the most frightening things in being self employed, especially at the beginning, is the mostly complete unpredictability about your stream of income. This is even more scary when being a composer where you’re depending on projects that...
Jul 1, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Giving a Face to the Name Clients and customers prefer to have a clear image of who is actually working for them. There are quite a few people who hide behind umpersonal websites that they call something like “Awesome Music Studio”, speaking of “we” and “us” without...
Jun 24, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Media Business and Empty Promises The media world is full of people who make a lot of empty promises or try to sell themselves and their project way above value. You need to develop a sense for such people an generally be very sceptical. Usually, when something...
Jun 17, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Working for a Friend Working for a friend (=the friendship existed before the business relationship) and especially negotiating a deal with him/her is very often a delicate matter as very often both parties are reluctant to go into “business talk” and shy away from...
Jun 10, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Composer’s Solitude Being a composer very often is a very lonely profession. The combination of projects that require long hours, working in a home studio, being a one man show and not really needing to go out to make money can sometimes result in phases...
Jun 3, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Project Hierarchy Before you start working on any project, try to determine the hierarchic structure of the people who work on it. On most film projects, the director should be the highest and last instance for creative decisions but it occurs from time to time that...
