The Knowledge - Guy Gross
CSB has been working for weeks on an exciting project with film journalist Andrew Urban of Urbancinefile. We’re interviewing film and television practitioners about their business experiences.
Our aim is to develop a deeper understanding about the history of business decision-making in film and television and to share with our audience the wisdom from the accumulated mistakes, experiments and achievements of the contributors.
Guy Gross - biography
Guy Gross is one of Australia’s most respected and diverse screen composers. Over his 25 year career, Guy has composed music for many hundreds of hours of television, including mini series dramas, children’s animated television, documentaries and a number of Australian feature films. This diversity is reflected in the numerous peer awards he has received from the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) including Best Music awards for: Documentary, Children’s Series, Short film, Animation, Promotional Video, Advertisement, TV Theme and twice for Best Music for a TV Series.
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Chapter 1 - First steps as a composer - 9 minutes
- Setting up in the lounge room
- First loan for equipment
- Stand-by work
- Family animation business as support
- Importance of professionalism
- Need to find a way of taking rejection
- Biggest challenge: to get the work
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Chapter 2 - building a business - 8 minutes
- How you diversify
- Demo disc a bad idea
- Personal relationships
- Never say no
- Overheads of a composer
- Overseas work options
- Advantages of having a publisher
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Chapter 3 - business details - 8 minutes
- Performance royalties
- Setting fees and package deals
- Working for television
- Corporate work and library music
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Chapter 4 - other thoughts and working on Happy Feet - 8 minutes
- Trackdown Scoring Stage – origins and acquisition
- An extra involvement and diversification
- Setting up a scoring stage and growing it
- Orchestra costs
- Recording Happy Feet
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