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December 31st, 2008 – A couple months ago, I wrote a post about music in film and TV. Well I stumbled upon an article at HowStuffWorks on the same subject. If you want more detail than in my post, check out their article here.
One interesting point they bring up is the effect technology has on the film composing process. They state that since technology has made it easier for more people to write music, there are many more composers than jobs. This means that each composer promises to deliver the product faster and cheaper than the next.
Ultimately, this undercuts the industry and either you end up not being able to make a sustainable living or, if you win the lottery, you end up one of a half dozen composers that get 95% of all the work (think Danny Elfman). This is pretty much the same thing that happened to the studio business. All the medium studios got cannibalized by the basement studios and all that was left were the huge studios (that big companies hire), and laptop producers. Technology makes things easier for a person to create, but because there are so many more competitors, ironically it is the organic connections that become most important. As the old adage goes: it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
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