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INDEXComposer in search for an audience
9 years, 8 months ago - Alejandro Bonatto
I signed up to Shooting People recently hoping it would be a better option to many other similar sites I have been member of. My intention was to expand my experience, to get involved in projects driven by the love of cinema with or without budget.
However, I've found that I've either applied for jobs after a composer has been sought and found or posts have been abandoned. This is my assumption since I hardly ever got an answer.
Of course this is something which just can't be helped and I don't regreat anything. Having said that, I really hoped I might have been able to help with on a few projects by now.
I then would like to ask filmmakers if you happened to have in the pipe any projects that still need music, I would be very grateful if you would like to chat about that with me. Should we have similar ideas and style I may be able to collaborate with you.
Best wishes,
Alejandro Bonatto
www.alejandrobonatto.com
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9 years, 8 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
A problem you're facing is that there are a lot of aspirant composers, far more than there are projects for them to score! It's no exaggeration to say that when I went public once on a film, I had a dozen composers asking for work before I even entered preproduction.
Harsh as it sounds, composers, runners and actresses seem to be in strong supply (the three categories that track me down to email me direct) so you're in a competitive space. Maybe try doing as someone else here has, and making your own production music/NNT/library stuff which you can licence inexpensively but it also gets you some kind of presence and track record.
9 years, 8 months ago - Timothy Bond
That's a really interesting observation - I wonder if anyone else sees this too? Runners and actresses (especially in their twenties) as you say, seem to be in abundance but i'm surprised at there being a glut of composers! Whilst it is obviously competitive it takes time and dedication to develop a very technical craft, especially when scoring to the visual image. Or are we seeing more people with a basic grasp of software able to throw together some pads and loops to create a soundscape that does the job and calling themselves 'composers' in the same way that many people programming drum machines and making 'beats' call themselves producers?
9 years, 8 months ago - John Lubran
Musical abilities are one of humanities core attributes. I've been in and around the music industry and musical community for over a half a century, much of it at it the top of its commercial manifestation. Where music is constitutionally innate in people then composing is not at all challenging, it's a pleasurable expression flowing like a natural and unquenchable fountain, more often than not without benefit of formal training. Indeed there's lots of 'professions' associated with arts and media that are sometimes associated with absurdly long form academic processes but those who've evolved through such pathways ought not take their own case for a generality. Yes I can confirm that our community is hugely over supplied with excellent musical talent in so far as there are commercially rewarding opportunities to match that supply. Music is not fundamentally a commercial entity though, it exists within people on a far more important level then that.
9 years, 8 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
I don't know if they're all great composers (and one person's good is another's terrible), just that there are a lot of people chasing that opportunity.