Film Music Composing – Ten Tips for Starting Up In Business
Register as self-employed no later than 3 months after you’ve made money from a music commission or track sale.
Decide whether you’ll trade under your own name or under a company name (for a corporate image).
Sign up with PRS and MCPS as soon as any of your music has been broadcast, or screened in a festival. Even [...]
Ten Reasons to be your own Boss
These are a few of the benefits you get from running your own business and being your own boss…
10 Top Tips – Writing Film Music
So you’ve got a great commission, composing music for feature film.
Congratulations!
But now what? Here are a few ideas that I’ve learned (often from some pretty tough lessons) make the process go a little more smoothly…
Get involved as early on as possible
Communicate with your director
Communicate with the editor
Be really clear about tone/mood/emotion
Be really clear about [...]
