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….
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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 →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 →Surviving the Crunch
If you do this thing for a while, here’s what’s eventually going to happen. You stumble into your studio early one morning and there’s a Hard Truth perched on top of your computer monitor, smirking at you: There is not enough time to do everything. Stealthy beads of flop-sweat reconnoiter your forehead, scouting the terrain [...]
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 [...]
Read More →Diverse Collaborators
Most of the time when talking about the topic of “diversification” as film composers, we are referring to the skills necessary to write for a variety of different mediums, genres, or projects. I’d like to talk about diversifying in a different light – being a diverse collaborator. Diverse collaboration to me means that in this [...]
Read More →The Balance of The Byrds
My passion to create music for film drives me. I am still a university student, and therefore am learning the essentials, but the real valuable lessons I have learned about this business have not been from lectures and exercises in harmonic theory. The most important things I’ve learned about building and maintaining a career as [...]
Read More →Maximizing Your Time: The Essentials
So here I am, responsible for getting these columns off to a delinquent start! But, I have a legitimate excuse, which I am going to use to kick off my first post here in my series “Composer as Producer.” Before I get started, I’ll take a quick moment to explain the purpose of my column. [...]
Read More →To Flit or Not to Flit?
Hi, folks—I’m trying out this blog for the very first time today, and I thought I’d bring up something for discussion—juggling. I have a bunch of projects going just now (too few of them paying… sigh), and I find that the most fun way to work isn’t necessarily the most efficient way—bouncing back and forth [...]
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