Jan 13, 2020 | Career Building, Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring, General, News, Orchestration, Technical, Working Together
The End of Daily Film Scoring Bits? 2020 marks the tenth anniversary of Daily Film Scoring Bits. What started out as a small idea has quickly developed into a very popular resource for learning composers. I received great feedback from all over the world and obviously...
Mar 18, 2019 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
“Real World” Communication Benefits In times where communication over long distances can easily be done via all sorts of practically instantaneous communication and where members of one project are scattered all over the planet, you should take every opportunity that...
Mar 11, 2019 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Self Discipline for Freelancers Being a composer, or rather being self emplyed requires a tremendous amount of self discipline. If you have the possibility to fall into lazyness, the temptation to actually fall into it is quite high. Every self employed person knows...
Mar 4, 2019 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Director-Composer Relationship Once there has been established a working relationship between a director and a composer, as long as both parties are happy with this relationship, it will usually last for quite a while. While this is beneficial and makes a few...
Feb 28, 2019 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Technical Skills for a Film Composer Quite a few composers who want to work for film reject to work on their technical skills. Very often an argument like “John Williams got to where he is by just writing short scores on paper and demoing things on the piano.” While...
Feb 25, 2019 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Exaggerating Your Portfolio When being new in the field of writing music for media and not having a lot of references and jobs that you have done, trying to get a gig that pays well and/or will have a higher impact on your career is always tricky and also not very...
