PaulLawler
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I’ve scored 3 films over this last year. The first two were a dream. The last one has been extremely tough in that over the space of 9 weeks, I’ve scored 1hr 50 minutes of intricate orchestral music to picture, approx 70 scenes, and then had to do an average of 8-10 revisions of each scene as the director and producers endlessly fiddled with things (on the rare times they agreed on what they wanted) That’s around 700 revisions. More often than not they weren’t revisions because they didn’t like something, they were mostly illogical granular level messing which often felt like I was no longer the composer, but music editor, which they didn’t have.
How do people protect themselves from such a situation ? Is this where a manager would come in and put a limit on things, or talk some sense into them on what to realistically expect with indie budgets ? I’ve done everything they asked hoping it might lead to other jobs, but honestly it’s nearly done me in, and I’ve not even done the stems yet :0
How do people protect themselves from such a situation ? Is this where a manager would come in and put a limit on things, or talk some sense into them on what to realistically expect with indie budgets ? I’ve done everything they asked hoping it might lead to other jobs, but honestly it’s nearly done me in, and I’ve not even done the stems yet :0
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