May 27, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Relevance of your IMDB Page In the film world, your IMDb page is quite important to showcase your references. This platform has been the standard in the industry for several years now. Producers/companies might even check your IMDb page to find out about your...
May 20, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Work Routines for Film Composers Even though the job of a freelance composer is very unpredictable, developing a daily work routine will help you to work more efficiently. Irregular working hours combined with little sleep, irregular breaks etc. will in the long run...
May 13, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Contract Negotiations in the Age of Social Media With references being much more important than university degrees in the media world, and with social media becoming more and more a vital tool to actually get your name around, you should make sure about a few...
May 7, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Satisfying the Customer vs. Satisfying Yourself Quite often clients will be pleased already with quite mediocre products and many composers develop a habit of saying “The customer’s happy, that’s all that counts.” While from a purely business-related viewpoint this...
Apr 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Non Disclosure Agreements for Composers So-called non disclosure agreements (NDA) are quite common practice in the media world. Some companies/clients handle them very strictly and generally put every project under rigid NDAs (sometimes going as far as having fake cue...
Apr 23, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Working Under Stress Hitting deadlines can be one of the scariest but also most productive things for a composer. When time AND inspiration is short, things can become particularly problematic. However, everybody should develop a strategy to be able to hit deadlines...
