[Fmpro] Composing vs. sound design

[Fernando Rivas]

The format you're talking about has become very prevalent (and noisy!).
Seems like anything targeted at 25 and under these days has the look and
feel of an action cartoon, even if it's a show about how to organize space
in your two car garage. It seems like it is a definite pain in the ass to
cover every second of video with something so I would definitely charge
additionally. And I'm not sure to what extent, if your work is not buy out,
all those hits and sfx are bound to generate any kind of royalties.


On 10/6/06 1:28 PM, "Geoff Koch" <gk at kochproductions.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone -- I'd like to get your thoughts on where the line between
> composer and sound designer lies, and at what point one may have assumed a
> dual-role.
> 
> I have a client that I've worked with for a number of years, scoring various
> tv shows.  The recent trend in tv production style has been a sort of
> "MTV-ized" approach -- lots of quick cuts, edits, wipes, flashes, video fx,
> etc.  In the beginning, there wasn't much of this "eye candy," but sometimes
> for the little that there was, I would throw in some musical fx to
> acknowledge it, and the client loved it.
> 
> But now, the sheer volume of these video fx have increased immensely, and
> the client now wants EVERY one of those video events to be hit with some
> sort of musical effect (cymbal, electronic crashes, fx, etc.)  We're talking
> hundreds of events to hit per episode, in addition to the normal scoring
> duties.  These are not sounds I would otherwise put into a piece of music.
> 
> So, two questions for everyone:
> 
> 1.  Where do you think the line between composer and sound designer lies,
> and would you agree that the line has been crossed in the scenario I gave
> above?
> 
> 2.  What would you think a proper response would be for such a situation --
> requesting additional compensation for this "added role?"
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Geoff Koch
> 
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