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...
Aug 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Strategically Rejecting Jobs As soon as you can financially afford it, start rejecting jobs that don’t fit into your personal profile and that you wouldn’t enjoy at all and just do them for the money or jobs that are underpaid. This will have several effects: creative...
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...
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...
