Jun 13, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Loops, Prerecorded Phrases and Presets The use of loops, presets and prerecorded phrases is seen very controversial among the community of composers with some people using only their own individually programmed presets and loops. There are of course two sides to this:...
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...
Feb 4, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Ghostwriting It happens from time to time that you’re asked to ghost write for someone else, which means that you transfer your authorship to someone else and will not be credited for your work. While this practice officially is illegal in most European countries...
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...
Oct 8, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Make No Excuses Make no excuses. Acting professional involves sometimes swallowing bad working conditions. Nobody cares whether you just couldn’t get the five mins score done in one day or whether your cat has been sick or if your computer crashed every three clicks...