Fingerprint your cues – Tyberis Music Database
Composer Stephan Römer in his first article in SCO has found a true gold nugget: Tyberis Music Database allows you to fingerprint your audio files and recognize them later just by playing them back. It is perfect for keeping track of cue use in a TV series or similar scoring situation.
Read More →Speeding Up Your Workflow with Logic
In this second installment, Logic expert Yaiza Varona explores various techniques that can be used to speed up our workflow. Time is money after all….
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.
Read More →Open 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 More →Budgets: 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 More →It’s Never Over
This weekend’s post ties together a couple of the topics we’ve touched on during first year here at SCOREcast (has it really been almost a year… we ought to do something to celebrate! Hmm…): delivery and studio organization. The question, then:
Is a gig ever really over? Sometimes it’s clear when you’re finished (especially if things go, how you say, not so well). Other times, though, it seems that these ghosts of gigs past come back to haunt us over and over. More on all of this after the jump.
Read More →Heather Fenoughty: Quality of Life
In a recent Scorecast article I wrote that I’ve never turned composing work down that I honestly believe I have the time and the skills to work on. That was about 2 months ago, right in the middle of practicing what I preached and jumping in the deep end with my organizational (=juggling) skills. I [...]
Read More →The Value of Television Music
As a rule I’m not a fan of cold-water opinion columns. You know the kind: “Here’s the hard, bitter truth about [insert choice of profession here].” The way I see it, more cold water (cold ink?) is simply unnecessary. You know the long hours required to improve, to get your name out there, to advance [...]
Read More →How to Work on Multiple Projects and Stay Sane
As a media composer, work is like buses. There’s nothing for a while, then three projects come along at once. In the last six months I have been inundated with composing and sound design work for film and theatre and I am constantly thanking my lucky stars. This is exactly what I wanted when I [...]
Read More →“Roadmapping” a Score
On the heels of a killer column post from SCOREcast co-host Lee Sanders on Wednesday about “Surviving the Crunch“, James Olszewski asked a very pertinent question: What do you recommend to develop a passable roadmap on a compressed timeline?… I’d like to get a peek at what one of these roadmaps looks like (even if [...]
Read More →Comfort is Key
Having worked along side composers like Hans Zimmer, Graeme Revell, and more recently Steve Jablonski, Rupert Gregson-Williams, and SCOREcast founder Deane Ogden, I’ve gleaned much by watching how the big boys do it. One thing I’ve noticed about the really successful composers — They are all healthy. Hans Zimmer rarely gets sick. If he does, [...]
Read More →Phases of the Game (the Quiz)
A beginning is a delicate time… or so I’ve heard. So I want to begin my column here on SCOREcast with what I’m going to try to cover—which is nearly everything—and a few words about my plan of attack. I like to work “big to small.” In other words, I try to start with the [...]
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