Sep 10, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Typecasting Composers Typecasting happens quite quickly and is a very annoying situation for most composers or practically any creative person. Once you have a notable success in a genre or in a job, probably most follow-up jobs will be more or less of the same kind...
Aug 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Career Dependency on Someone Else Don’t make your own career depending solely on someone else’s career. Don’t feel like you have your foot firmly on the ladder just because you have a great working relationship with one director/company who’ll definitely hire you for...
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 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...
