What Is Your Greatest Motivator?
"Motivation" is a strange thing. Be careful how you answer this one: We are certainly aware of the risk involved in even putting this question out there—we are inviting a deluge of the token "writing music is who I am" comments. Honestly, though, if you lost everyone and everything in your life tomorrow, we'd bet money that the least important "treasure" would be all of the shows you've worked on. With that in perspective.... What is your greatest motivator?
Read MoreOpen Forum Friday: What Has Been Your Biggest Timesaver?
It's time for a new feature around here that we will be calling "Open Forum Friday". Every Friday morning, we'll post a question that relates to the business of audio post-production. You log into the COMMENTS section below each post and give us and the rest of the SCO community your perspective on the matter. Today, we're kicking it off with something that anyone who's ever been on a deadline should find very helpful...
Read MoreBudgets: Putting Your Money Where Your Mock-Up Is
"How much money will I make as a film composer?" That's the six million dollar question, isn't it? As much as we can try to come up with a complete answer, the only true answer really is, "Whatever you can!" The bigger question—and the one I want to tackle here—is "How much money do live players eat up during a film score's production and how do you plan for the bloodshed?" The answer to that questions is... "I wish there was an answer." Now that I've been no help at all, let's see if we can figure it out together...
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