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 15, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
A Composer’s Unique Selling Point If you seriously want to pursue a career as fulltime composer, you should try to develop a strategy that sets you apart from the rest of the people in the business. The world doesn’t need yet another “media composer doing every...
Apr 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Moral Concerns as Composer Many artists are at least once in their career in the situation where they might become instrumentalized for ideas or beliefs they personally don’t agree with. Being a composer in the media world maximizes this possibility. Every composer...
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...
