How I got my job - Composer Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
I've always wanted to be a film composer or a composer. Ever since I was a little boy, it's like that career chose me in a way. Everything I did, I did as a thought of how what I was writing or what I was playing, how that fit picture and what that sound would be like as I wrote it. And so, as I got older and got involved in a recording studio, I was able to score a couple small industrial films, and it was like a dream come true. I was literally doing it. It's like I've been prepared all my life to score music to a film, and I loved it.
Video 2 Transcript
One film I got was a wrestling film and it needed a lot of sports, pumped up music, you know, training and fighting and music had to be upbeat. On one of my previous recordings in London, I took with me an arrangement of the BYU Cougar Fight song that I had sort of fixed up. It was reminiscent a little bit of Rocky and I had recorded the end of the session and I sent that recording to a friend of mine who's a director and he called me and says, I want you to score this wrestling film and I want the theme song to sound just like the Cougar song without using that melody. So that's how I got my gig of scoring this film called Takedown. It was very fortunate for me.
Video 3 Transcript
How I got my job, I mean, I think, you know, I've always been a musician and I've been composing since I was about 17. You know, early on, how you get your footing in a business is largely through maybe contacts that you have in academia. You know, if you go through a composition program or something like that, you know, you'll meet people and they will connect you to other people and perhaps, you know, you'll get your first gigs doing that, right? The music business is very social. It's very networky. You have to go out and meet people, know people, and frankly, have people know you. I mean, that's really, really important. So, you know, get out there, you know, talk to people, work with ensembles, have them perform your music, write for people. You know, there are a lot of things you can do to sort of kickstart your career. And the important thing to remember, though, is that networking is really one of the most important things when you're building any sort of career in the arts.
Video 4 Transcript
So how I have my job as a composer, I can remember being in third grade and seeing a professional piano player and going home and writing in my journal and saying that when I grew up I wanted to be a composer, I wanted to be a performer, I wanted to be an author, and a motivational speaker. I have that in my journal from when I was in third grade. So I always knew that I wanted to do this, but when my wife and I were newly married, I began teaching piano lessons. And as I was teaching piano lessons, then I started creating music books and coming out with music books. And I had always been composing. I think my first composition was when I was seven or eight, so I've been composing my entire life. But I started composing more and more music, and then I started putting the music into books and coming out with one book after another, and then I started coming out with albums, and it just went from one area to another.
Video 5 Transcript
How I got my job, this doesn't maybe really apply, because I just started doing it. I just wrote my first song, my first real song, and did my first video, and put it on YouTube, and that is how I got my job. I just started doing it.
