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 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...
Read MoreSCOREcast Poll Discussion
In the spirit of this month's focus on branding and marketing, we wanted to give you all a chance to voice your opinion on what method of marketing you like best. So once you've taken our poll in the right side bar, tell us in the comments why you chose your answer. Why is that particular method the easiest for you?
Read MoreHeather Fenoughty: Personality Branding
The month of June has been one of reflection, for me, on the first half of the year, consolidation, evaluation, and looking forward to what the rest of the year will hold. It's the calm between storms, if you will. One of the things I've been mulling over and considering is business development and branding. After all, my freelance work is a business, and it deserves the same care and attention as any business to grow and become more profitable. Through this process, I've become fascinated with the 'Myers-Briggs' test. There are loads of different kinds of personality tests out there, but this is the one I've found the most useful and accurate for how I approach life and, more importantly, the business of scoring picture.
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