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wish me luck!

good luck

At least you're leaving on a good note. Good luck on the film making thing. Or maybe I should say break a leg?

You're choosing a tough row to hoe!! My ex-husband is a composer, and also does music for film, theatre, TV etc. It's a very pressure-filled life, you're working to deadlines, you're working to a brief, 18-hour days, 7 days a week if you're successful. You'd better have the stamina of a cart-horse!!! This is a bit of a gloomy post, don't mean it to be. I just hope that you have a definite strategy. There are probably publishing companies that specialise in film music (though all publishing companies should go after work for you, once you're signed to them). But publishing companies are buggers - if you're not successful immediately they don't bother their arses looking for work for you, and you have to end up paying them a percentage for work you got yourself. My ex-husband (I speet on his name), far as I know he doesn't have a publishing company, just built up a network of clients over the years, and manages his own publishing. The Performing Rights Society collects all royalties, all that publishing companies do is they collect them for you, but you can do that yourself. So be careful of signing with a publishing company unless they can guarantee to get you work. They're bullshitters, that's their stock in trade. Oops, I'm in the Bryce forum. But now that I've gone to the trouble of typing all this I'm gonna post it!

Im sure its all true, Pog, but after that hell probably say "Sod it, Im stopping" LOL Good luck, mate.

to: pogmahone Thank you very much for the advice! I appreciate the thoughts about my beocoming a film composer, and I figured I should to reply to say I have indeed done a great deal of research over such a life. I know it's hard and long days, filled with pressures, and that I may very well end up living in poverty. I'm already resigned to such a consequence, although I have a large number of other odd ideas and talents to (ahem, I HATE this phrase, but...) "fall back on." Concerning the publishing companies, I honestly didn't know that. Coincidentally I was already planning on doing my own publishing but that was because I was told simply to be wary of cons in the business and I'm determined not to get ripped off. I'm cheap and I like my mulah. ;) But I am determined to become a composer, even if it is not a film composer per se and even if it is not my major source of income. I think I have the drive you're talking about, and I'm not afraid of hard work. Maybe most importantly, I love music.

Oh, and Sod it, I'm stopping. (whatever that means) ;)

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dang..I have all the tools (Cakewalk, an 8-track digital recorder, and a whole rack of synth modules), but none of the talent..;) Of course, you could be talking about actual symphonies..which is a lot of work. My last piano teacher wound up doing film scores ( a Mr. Prendergast..;), so it can be done..good luck on everything..

A useful potboiler, if you're good at melody and arrangement, is library music. There are big library music companies, as far as I know you don't have to sign an exclusive contract with them. You could do a bit of research in your local library, I'm sure The Artists' and Writers' Yearbook (or equivalent for composers) would have details of library music publishers.

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mrscience - by coincidence, this morning I was searching for something else (a song from my daughter's album was used in a Lipton's TV ad, I was searching to see if the ad was on TV yet, can't find it though. If anyone sees a TV ad for Lipton's Tea, shot in NY, with shoes featuring heavily, let me know ;^)) and came across the attached link. It's just a for-instance of the type of company you could get advice from. As I mentioned above, if you're good at melody, arrangement, different styles, AND a good organiser, you can make a lot of money.