My book Guerrilla Film Scoring was released in 2015, and it was almost immediately adopted by universities across the country and many aspiring film composers. Today, Amazon released the feature-length documentary in 9 episodes. The documentary is entirely segments from celebrity interviews which contributed to the book, so for those of you who aren’t likely to read it’s now streaming! It’s free to Amazon Prime members and very affordable to everybody else. Guerrilla Film Scoring explains how to create a great film score quickly and cost effectively in the current industry climate, and it fills a much-needed hole between the study of music and a career as a composer. To create the book I built a team of 20 celebrity composers …
Scoring The Next Gig
Originally published Summer 2016 in The Score, the quarterly journal of The Society of Composers & Lyricists, ASCAP We Create Music blog, and Designing Music Now. There are no guarantees in any culture in the world that art is going to be sustainable and provide you a good living. As a composer you might become well paid eventually, but you will never have a steady or predictable career path. Being highly skilled and highly experienced is not enough in the music industry. Instead of a corporate ladder, musicians have a huge rock face to climb. A resume is unlikely to help you as a composer, although a credits list may. Submitting demo reels is the composer’s equivalent to submitting a resume, but …