Jan 6, 2020 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Package Deals There are basically two different ways of how the music budget of a production is being coordinated. 1.) The composer gets a fee for writing the music and any additional expenses for the production of the music (including orchestra recordings,...
Oct 21, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Negotiating Payment Structure On projects that take quite a long time (like several months), you should make sure to negotiate payments in installments. Even though the prospect of being paid quite a lot of money after the project is exciting, it doesn’t help to pay...
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...
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...
Jul 30, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Projects with unpredictable work load On some projects the expected workload is extremely hard to predict beforehand which makes it even trickier when you need to schedule it in or to give a quote on your costs. If you can not come up with a flat fee, it might be...
