Wiardgroup

This is a great discussion, by the way. I know it's not Wiard specific, 
but.....


> Years ago, I saw the trend in the music industry - everybody had a
> garage sale in December, selling off this year's instruments so that
> we had money buy the new gear at NAMM in January;  

...and you end up with 379 TV Shows, documentaries, movies or album 
projects that had "Digital Native Dance" on them all at the same time.

I used to do tons of commercials for the ad agencies here in town. A 
couple of events finally convinced me to tell them all to go to hell, 
and I don't work for any of them anymore. Mainly, it was the total lack 
of creativity on their part. They had no ability to consider the fact 
that something that sounded a little different might be just what their 
spot actually needed to stand out from the rest. I got sick of cloning 
"pop song #28" day after day. It got so bad that I had a clause in my 
contracts with them that stated that since it was a work for hire (that 
was another reason - in this state the word "residual" meant "never 
mind, we'll find somebody else"), *they* and only they assumed any 
potential copyright problems, which essentially was what they had me 
doing - copying.

Seemed a shame that I won a state Addy award in another state for "Best 
Score and Sound Design" and nobody in my home town could get past having 
their spot sound like "What's Love Got to Do With It"!

I now only take on the projects that interest me and give me some degree 
of control over the creative process. I may not be making as much money, 
but I'm a heck of a lot happier and that's all that matters to me.

 > As a film composer like Chris, I can honestly say that I really don't
 > give a crap how anybody else does this job.

Agreed. If everybody did it exactly alike every show on TV would sound 
like "Days of Our Lives".



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Les Mizzell
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