[Fmpro] Working outside L.A./ relocating to Tampa Bay, Florida

[Keith Kehrer]

D.C. is really different from L.A. and NYC. It's mostly corporate 
work, politic films/spots (big biz this year with elections) and 
documentaries. The Discovery channel is based in Silverspring, MD and 
I have done a little work for them through a production company 
though I can't remember which one.

Keith

>That sounds like good advice, Chris.  Any special tips for the Washington,
>DC, area, where I'm located?
>
>Job van Zuijlen
>
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>From: "Christopher Alpiar" <chris at alpiar.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:39
>To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
>Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Working outside L.A./ relocating to Tampa Bay, Florida
>
>>  Embrace your local scene, be active locally. That and stay involved
>>  with as many libraries as possible. You wont be hired to write custom
>>  scores for films in LA or NYC but you can still do a lot of good
>>  stuff. Being in Tampa you should get involved with the local
>>  entertainment folks, Busch Gardens, Disney, etc. and all the cruise
>>  lines as well. Also I would suggest learning spanish and getting in
>>  touch with salsa, cumbia, meringue, calypso, souca and all forms of
>>  Caribbean and South American music forms. Latin Dance music and Salsa
>>  is the mainstay of the music for South Florida, but it has many many
>>  flavors, there are hundreds of styles of Cuban salsa alone, much less
>>  various South American flavors. But you are going to the place where
>>  caucasian and african american people are the minority, so being
>>  excited to dive into the Hispanic and Caribbean culture and music will
>>  take you far ;) I think you will find the music business saturated
>>  with Latin pop music and if you don't speak Spanish it will be
>>  difficult to be involved. There are small trickles of other musics
>>  there, and with quite a few TV shows being produced in Miami, there is
>>  a lot of big business down there. But again the clique that runs that
>>  scene is almost exclusively Cuban or South American. So understanding
>>  that culture, politics, music and language will set you apart from the
>>  other non hispanics. Understanding why the majority group of Florida,
>>  Cubans, are vehemently loyal to Cuba and refuse to leave that culture
>>  even though they hate Castro even more and willingly have left family
>>  in Cuba to escape his rule, and all of the emotional experience that
>>  comes with and around it. I miss South Florida often, other than the 2
>>  inch+ flying cockroaches affectionately known as Palmetto Bugs... But
>>  it is a really wonderful place where you can learn so much about those
>>  cultures which still are strongly independent and not homogenized and
>>  yet still all co-existing in the hispanic melting pot called South
>>  Florida: Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands,
>>  Puerto Rico, and of course all the major countries of northern and
>>  Eastern South America: Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, and even
>>  further reaching areas like Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Paraguay, these
>>  places are all represented strongly in South Florida. Its really amazing
>>
>>  Good Luck with it Todd, sounds like a lot of fun!
>>
>>
>>  On Mar 4, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Todd Burns wrote:
>>
>>>  This is a bit hypothetical, but would any of you fine folks care to
>>>  comment on working outside a "major" music center like Los Angeles or
>>>  NY? There's a possibility we'll end up in the Tampa Bay area. My
>>>  current situation isn't location based, so (in theory) I can move to
>>>  anywhere with a   power generator and a high speed Internet
>>>  connection. But, sure, that's a little scary. Any work in that area,
>>>  and maybe nearby Orlando?
>>>
>>>  Thanks! Really!
>>>
>>>  Todd Burns
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>>
>>  Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
>>  Cinematic Composer
>>  www.alpiar.com
>>
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