[Fmpro] Fwd: Mandy Job Offer

[Christopher Alpiar]

Yea but its like an anthropologist who frequents site digs, museum  
back rooms, crypts, lectures at MIT and society auctions being mad at  
a garbage collector who got that beat up tricycle for free...  
different strokes for different folks.

1+1 = 11?

While I don't think this is one of them, or at least a remotely  
important one, I agree vehemently that there are serious problems in  
our business and we are faced with the inevitable death of composing  
as we know it to be transformed into something very different. The  
only way to do anything about the deluge of changes that are the  
spiral into the abyss for our art is through solidarity and unionizing  
and collective bargaining and lobbying but you all are too chicken to  
even try!

:)

On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Susan Poliniak wrote:

> Eric Goetz <lists at ericgoetz.com> quoth:
>> If the film was *really good*, I would have applied for a grant to  
>> pay
>> myself and some pro musicians.
>
> With all due respect, if the film were THAT good, the production  
> team would be behaving far differently. The producer would have a  
> team of investors lined up and the composer would not be faced the  
> with the burden of making up for someone else's lack of budgeting  
> skills.
>
> Plus, why should you have to spend YOUR efforts to get grant money  
> for THEIR project? Shouldn't they believe in their work enough to  
> obtain a grant and then hire a composer and musicians for proper  
> rates? If they don't think well enough of their film to invest in it  
> properly, what sort of message does that send? And why would you  
> want to spread that sort of "love" to the musicians? Why should they  
> work for free--just because you did?
>
> It all feels like a fast and furious race to the bottom.
>
> - S
>
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Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
Cinematic Composer
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