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Re: seems like less is more is what is getting synced

Post by Casey H » Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:10 pm

superblonde wrote:
Wed Aug 18, 2021 5:41 pm
I don't know what a more ideal brief would look like but it should probably contain more usable keywords. That is the issue at hand. Music supervisors say they want to match a mood, yet give only 3 vague words for the mood, leading to the problem of trying to interpret what the mood is from references which might have been arbitrarily chosen to begin with...
This sounds like someone out of work, looking for a job, and spending all their time and energy trying to tell HR departments and interviewers how they should do THEIR jobs. The job descriptions aren't clear enough!! The interview questions aren't relevant enough!!

Taxi listings and music supervisor briefs aren't going to change to your satisfaction. You can shout about that all day and night or spend that time and energy writing more music.

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Re: seems like less is more is what is getting synced

Post by Telefunkin » Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:38 pm

....and when you've finally argued and argued until the whole world changes its way of working just to suit your own personal preferences, will your music be any better? Will it be any more successful? Will everyone else's music be just as successful?

Don't you find it remarkable that so many Taxi members have managed to be successful with the current style of listings? Once successful, they then stop worrying about Taxi forwards and graduate to dealing directly with publishers/libraries and their briefings. What do think they look like? Well, often they're MUCH more brief than Taxi listings! That's just how it is, and I wish you good luck when you start telling the libraries that they should change the way they work too :).

Procrastination, excuses, or whatever you get from arguing against other people's organisation is a waste of energy that could be better used in creating music. When the music is so good that nobody can turn it down, all of the arguing about a few words is totally irrelevant. Until then, you might as well find a way to work with whatever words you're presented with.

....and perhaps in years to come you might also recognise that those music professors actually knew a thing or two :).
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Re: seems like less is more is what is getting synced

Post by superblonde » Wed Aug 18, 2021 7:48 pm

I don't know what's wrong with you guys but perhaps you might consider not being elitist jerks. All service companies improve over time and every industry strives to improve itself. Or consumers go elsewhere. A music supervisor who can properly communicate their intentions will be more successful and the entire production team will be more successful as a result, and their business will grow, and they will take over competitors who don't likewise improve themselves. Yet here are more replies essentially claiming, "NO, status quo is fine, nothing needs to improve, it's your problem." You may want to simply admit that you, yourselves, can't explain briefs or music itself any better than currently offered because you don't have the understanding to do so; or, you could bow out of the conversation as having nothing productive to offer.
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Re: seems like less is more is what is getting synced

Post by cassmcentee » Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:30 pm

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Re: seems like less is more is what is getting synced

Post by cosmicdolphin » Thu Aug 19, 2021 6:08 am

superblonde wrote:
Wed Aug 18, 2021 7:48 pm
I don't know what's wrong with you guys but perhaps you might consider not being elitist jerks. All service companies improve over time and every industry strives to improve itself. Or consumers go elsewhere. A music supervisor who can properly communicate their intentions will be more successful and the entire production team will be more successful as a result, and their business will grow, and they will take over competitors who don't likewise improve themselves. Yet here are more replies essentially claiming, "NO, status quo is fine, nothing needs to improve, it's your problem." You may want to simply admit that you, yourselves, can't explain briefs or music itself any better than currently offered because you don't have the understanding to do so; or, you could bow out of the conversation as having nothing productive to offer.
The guys aren't being elitist - Plenty of other folks manage to get along perfectly well in the current system. If you are failing to do so then it's not the system that's at fault. It's you.

It's already been well proven that you don't need a music degree, to read or write musical notation, virtuoso performance skills , or the fanciest instruments to get along in Sync.

You simply need to be able to read the directions such as they are, listen to the refs and have the ability to put together something similar with good production values in a short space of time in a format makes the editors job easy. That's it.

Nobody cares how you get there as long as you deliver licensable music - They don't look at the letters after your name before they decide to audition your cue. It's just in a big bucket with all the other tracks.

Taste is the biggest differentiator - Most people will fail because their tastes are out of step with current trends.

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Re: seems like less is more is what is getting synced

Post by RickElliott » Sat Sep 11, 2021 6:01 am

Good observation.
It seems like a tough cookie. Sometimes we get it right.
I like the philosophy "Write, Submit, Forget, Repeat".
Have to have thick skin when we don't get a placement or a forward and can't let it get us down.
Making observations and applying them is the same as when artists and composers can predict where the industry is going.
Keep doing that

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