Music Composition and Film Scoring: Getting Gigs

Okay, for our last kind of big topic in this class, I want to talk about how to get gigs in the film music world. Now, I sadly don't have a silver bullet here or a secret weapon, but there are a few things you can do that will hopefully lead to some jobs. No promises, and it takes a lot of work. Remember that the thing about film scoring is that above pretty much all of the other professions in modern music making, film scoring is the one that most people want to get into. So there are a lot of people looking for these jobs. So there's two main things you can do that will set you apart from everyone else looking for these jobs, and they are, number one, build a portfolio. Number two, get that portfolio in front of the right people. So that's what I'm going to talk about in this section. I've had gigs come to me from me soliciting work by sending out my portfolio to people. I've done okay with that. I've gotten a couple jobs that way, but I've also got a couple jobs that people have come to me for, which was surprising. But I got lucky. I got really lucky a couple times where people heard some of my music and they tracked me down and said, we want you to be part of this project. And it worked out really well. You can't count on that happening. But if you put out good music and you work hard at it, hopefully people will find you. But let's talk about how to make that more efficient and get you in front of people. So first thing, build a portfolio. Let's go to a new video and let's talk about how you can build a portfolio without having any jobs yet.