Sep 2, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Writer’s Block Writer’s block is something that is extremely annoying especially when you are under heavy deadline pressure. At certain moments, if you let yourself being dragged down by this, it can even cause pure despair. Whenever you suffer from writer’s...
Jun 18, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Strategies for Writing Music to Unfinished Edits Unfortunately, there are quite often situations where you need to start writing music to an un-locked cut in order to be able to hit the deadline. While this situation is far from ideal due to picture lock dates being...
May 20, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Work Routines for Film Composers Even though the job of a freelance composer is very unpredictable, developing a daily work routine will help you to work more efficiently. Irregular working hours combined with little sleep, irregular breaks etc. will in the long run...
Apr 23, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Working Under Stress Hitting deadlines can be one of the scariest but also most productive things for a composer. When time AND inspiration is short, things can become particularly problematic. However, everybody should develop a strategy to be able to hit deadlines...
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...
