[Fmpro] FMPRO Digest - Composers Union

[Alcheh Daniel]

I just had brunch with a big producer a couple of weeks ago and we  
found ourselves
discussing budgets. When I gave a few examples of these ridiculous  
numbers that we
get offered to score a feature she looked at me bewildered and said:  
"don't you composers
have a union? I didn't realize! Well, why don't you just start one  
with a few colleagues!"

Top people in the industry, that are used to paying not less than 50K  
and up for a feature score
(she recently hired Mychael Danna for a project) don't even know that  
we're not unionized. And they
just don't understand why.

On Mar 25, 2008, at 8:00 AM, fmpro-request at nxport.com wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:56:55 -0400
> From: Christopher Alpiar <chris at alpiar.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Fwd:  Mandy Job Offer
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> 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!
>
> :)