Jan 21, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Being Available All The Time The feeling of needing to be available for customers all the time and at any hour can be really health damaging. The fear of missing a carreer boosting opportunity or something like this because of taking a day off or being on vacation for...
Jan 14, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Financial Security While Being Self-Employed 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...
Jan 7, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Be Easy to Work With Clients most of the time value a lot how easy it is to work with, sometimes even more than your musical expertise. It is one of the biggest nightmares for any producer/director etc. to work with a composer who isn’t able or willing to communicate...
Dec 17, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Calculating your own fee Many composers who just start out in the field are often unsure about how much money to ask for a job before they are hired fearing that if they ask for too much they will lose the job. Also, the insecurity often comes from simply not knowing...
Dec 10, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Relying on only a Few Clients Always take care to have a wide range of customers. When you are in a comfortable position of getting a steady flow of projects and therefore income from a few customers, you might not see the urgent pressure to aquire new customers but...
Dec 3, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
(Re-)Scoring Blockbuster Scenes Many especially young composers are looking for film material to practice scoring. And due to many of them wanting to write so-called epic music, it becomes even trickier to find footage as it’s not particularly easy to find amateur or...
