Llama Butter
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For instance when I first moved to la a few years ago my first step to getting work was emailing every music supervision, sound design or sync adjacent company or group I could find and then calling.
My next step was setting up lunches with them, because I was new to the city I wanted to use living here to my advantage as much as possible and I think people tend to hire someone more when they can put a face to their music. It's the same psychology behind why every youtuber has their face all looking shocked and stuff for their thumbnail, why selfies tend to get more likes etc.
Then when I actually got lunch with them I use that as an opportunity to tell them my story, where I come from and where I want to go. I also try to include as many parts of my process that I feel pretentious talking to my friends about.
I think the "trick" that has gotten me the most work came from a friend who's a freelance web designer. I'll Send a hand written card to whoever I met with, thanking them for their time and any advice they may have given over lunch.
Do you guys have any other advice/tips like this? I mean besides "write better music and people will want to use it" I guess my question is more general networking/interview tips that could be totally obvious or not obvious that you'd be willing to share that I might have missed.
Thanks in advance!
My next step was setting up lunches with them, because I was new to the city I wanted to use living here to my advantage as much as possible and I think people tend to hire someone more when they can put a face to their music. It's the same psychology behind why every youtuber has their face all looking shocked and stuff for their thumbnail, why selfies tend to get more likes etc.
Then when I actually got lunch with them I use that as an opportunity to tell them my story, where I come from and where I want to go. I also try to include as many parts of my process that I feel pretentious talking to my friends about.
I think the "trick" that has gotten me the most work came from a friend who's a freelance web designer. I'll Send a hand written card to whoever I met with, thanking them for their time and any advice they may have given over lunch.
Do you guys have any other advice/tips like this? I mean besides "write better music and people will want to use it" I guess my question is more general networking/interview tips that could be totally obvious or not obvious that you'd be willing to share that I might have missed.
Thanks in advance!