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10 Questions To Help You Start A Career: 1. What Area of The Media Would You Like To Work In?

This document provides 10 questions to help identify steps needed to start a career in a chosen media sector. The questions focus on determining the desired niche, examples of relevant works, common qualities of those works, research on current commissions, potential clients, steps taken to contact clients, creative/technical barriers, and plans to overcome barriers. Answering these questions honestly and sending the responses can help start the journey towards securing media work.

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10 Questions To Help You Start A Career: 1. What Area of The Media Would You Like To Work In?

This document provides 10 questions to help identify steps needed to start a career in a chosen media sector. The questions focus on determining the desired niche, examples of relevant works, common qualities of those works, research on current commissions, potential clients, steps taken to contact clients, creative/technical barriers, and plans to overcome barriers. Answering these questions honestly and sending the responses can help start the journey towards securing media work.

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10 QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU

START A CAREER
These ten questions are designed to help you identify the steps
you need to take in order to successfully win work in your chosen
sector. It’s just a start but I hope it will help you both identify what
is stopping you from succeeding and give you insight into what
steps are necessary to overcome those obstacles.

1. What area of the media would you like to work in?

• Film • Library Music


• Video Games • Trailers
• Commercials • Other

1. Now be more specific…

Describe briefly your niche or sub-genre you would like to


work for. TV or Video Games is just too broad so you need
to focus on a segment.

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3. In that segment, list 5 current examples of pieces of work you would
like to have done.

Try to be realistic and identify projects you think you could learn to do within the next two – three
years.

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B E
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4. If you listen to the music used in each of those five examples, what
qualities and elements do they do they have in common?

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5. What research have you done to discover what music is being
commissioned right now in that niche?
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6. Name five individuals who are commissioning work like this?


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7: What steps have you taken to contact or meet these people or
people like them?

A. Email C. Arranged meeting

B. Attended conference or festival D. None

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7: What steps have you taken to contact or meet these people or
people like them?

8. What are the top creative or musical barriers preventing you doing
that work?

9. What are the major technical barriers to you doing that work?

10. What steps are you taking to overcome your creative, musical or
technical barriers to allow you to access this work?

This checklist is designed to focus your attention on the kind of things you need to think about if
you want to get work as a media composer or a sound designer. Most people struggle with this and
probably have only taken a small number of the steps towards their goal.

Don’t be disheartened. Most people don’t do this so you are already at an advantage. The next
crucial step is actually doing something about it, making a plan that you can start to implement.

Want to make a start on this journey? You know the saying – a journey of 1000 miles starts with a
single step? Well, how about answering some of these questions honestly and sending it to us at
[email protected].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you.


Best wishes,
Guy

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