who are you as an artist? This can seem like a daunting and hard to define topic, especially in the realm of film scoring. It can feel like discovering yourself and defining yourself as an artist can limit your options for work, and when you’re starting out, that can feel incredibly scary.

as film composers have additional duties and understandings that may extend beyond traditional discussions of music. Most musicians are familiar with the five elements of music: harmony, rhythm, melody, texture, and form. When analyzing music of any genre or medium, we can look at it through the lens of each of these elements and come to conclusions about the music in order to deeper understand the composer and their style and choices. Film music does not exist in a vacuum, a

Making the transition from student films to larger budget films is HARD. There is no easy path to go from scoring films for free to making enough money to pay some of your bills each month, or even sustaining yourself full time. A lot of the traditional advice comes down to just keep at it and keep networking, and though that is good advice it can feel a little exhausting when it feels like you are repeating the same thing over and over again and barely moving the needle.