51 Marketing Ideas for Film Music Composers

Attention spans are short and very demanding. If you want to make your art into a business, you have to brand yourself and then market your art. No getting away from it.

SCOREcast 32: Tom Salta

Veteran video game composer Tom Salta stops by to chat with the boys about the art and business of scoring video games during SCOREcast’s 5th Anniversary episode.

SCOREcast 31: Total Request (Sorta) LIVE!

In our first Q&A episode, we open up Twitter, Facebook, and a hangout on Google+ to hear what’s on your mind about writing, producing, “politiking”, and navigating the business.

Worst Advice for Beginning Composers

When you are starting out, everyone has an opinion. And here’s mine.

You’re Not Ready

You’ve been told you’re talented. You just graduated music school. You have your plane ticket. You’re gonna be famous. Not so fast, Johnson.

SCOREcast 28: Richard Bellis

Emmy Award-winning composer Richard Bellis hangs out with SCOREcast for an in-depth look at the state of the film music business.

Richard Bellis: Re-Sophisticaton

Advanced technology has merely enabled us to be efficient, but composing music for media is much more than efficiency.

SCOREcast 27: The Long Winter

Deane Ogden and Brian Ralston co-host an edition that is so crammed with new goodies you’ll forget all about the fact that we’ve been in hiding for 10 months!

SCL Backs Composers Union Effort

It took them a year, but the Society of Composers and Lyricists have come out in support of the proposed Composers Union, spearheaded by the Association of Music Composers and Lyricists (AMCL) and the Teamsters Union Local 399. Read more…

Tools for Studio Organization

Today’s composer needs to be balanced as a businessperson and writer. Here are some tools to help keep it all running smoothly.

What Is Your Biggest Weakness?

It’s hard to talk about what you suck at.

Heather 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.