ARTICLE - Tips For Graduates. How To Spend Your First Summer Out Of University.
When you reach the end of your university course, it's a time for great celebration. The hard work has paid off, and you can feel the...
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Genevieve Fisher
Jun 47 min read
ARTICLE - The Most Common Mistakes When Recording With an Orchestra for the First Time.
Recording your music with an orchestra for the first time is a special experience, and something that you will never forget. However the...
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Genevieve Fisher
Mar 274 min read
ARTICLE - Exploring the Diverse World of Chamber Ensembles.
When we think of film music, we usually imagine epic scores performed by an orchestra of an equally epic scale. This doesn’t always have...
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Kyle Corbin
Oct 17, 20235 min read
ARTICLE: ASPIRING COMPOSERS - Should You Study Film Music In Higher Education?
In days gone by it was generally accepted that a university degree was a necessary requirement for securing a professional career role. ...
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Jack Hughes
Oct 1, 20233 min read
ARTICLE: Networking Tips For Young Composers - How To Get The Most Out Of Every Encounter.
"It’s not what you know, its who you know", is a phrase often heard in creative industries. This is not always true – as composers we...
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Jack Hughes
Jul 17, 20235 min read
ARTICLE: How To Collaborate More Effectively As A Film Composer.
Collaboration is an inescapable fact of working within the creative industries. No matter what path you take you will have to learn how...
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Jack Hughes
Apr 28, 20233 min read
ARTICLE - 5 Tips for Young Composers.
Becoming a composer can be a very daunting task at first glance. There are many different skills to learn such as creating convincing...
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Jack Hughes
Aug 30, 20226 min read
ARTICLE: Composers - How To Prepare For an Orchestral Scoring Session.
Recording with a live orchestra is an experience that all composers dream of. Nothing can beat the experience of hearing 50+ musicians...
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Jack Hughes
Mar 30, 20225 min read
ARTICLE - How To Find Inspiration and Stay Creative. 5 Practical Tips for Composers.
A creative or inspirational slump is something that we all go through from time to time. It's an inevitable part of being an artist. This...
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Jack Hughes
Dec 29, 20214 min read
Composers: How to Start a YouTube Channel and Produce Your Own Content.
Starting the Channel YouTube is a platform where users can share their videos with millions of others, making it the perfect place for...
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Jack Hughes
Nov 6, 20213 min read
ARTICLE: Persistence & Patience. What Composers Can Learn From Fishermen.
Fishing is one of the earliest known human activities and can be found across all cultures and climates. This is also true of music, and...
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Jack Hughes
Oct 14, 20216 min read
GUEST POST: 5 Reasons to Work with a Co-composer - Two Twenty Two.
Welcome back to the Northern Film Orchestra blog. Today we are pleased to share with you the latest in our series of guest-written...
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Jack Hughes
Oct 7, 20213 min read
GUEST POST: 5 Alternative Income Streams for Composers - Sam Allen.
Welcome back to the NFO blog. Today we are excited to share with you a guest post penned by Composer and Manchester resident Sam Allen....
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Jack Hughes
Sep 25, 20216 min read
How To Sell Yourself As A Composer - 5 Tips For Success.
You may compose the greatest music of all time, but it doesn’t matter if no one is there to witness it. So many creative,...
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Jack Hughes
Sep 14, 20218 min read
Composers – 5 Tips For a Killer Website.
If you read our last blog post, you would have seen us refer to the website as the central hub of all of your operations. Everything goes...
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Jack Hughes
Aug 29, 20211 min read
NEW VIDEO: How To Orchestrate for Strings, with Zach Heyde.
We are delighted to share with you a new educational video from composer Zach Heyde discussing the topic of arranging & orchestration for...
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Jack Hughes
Dec 31, 20202 min read
New Years Resolutions For Composers.
The start of a new year is a great time to take stock of where you are at in your career, and set yourself new goals and ambitions for...
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Jack Hughes
Oct 31, 20203 min read
Film Composers: 5 Tips For Writing Horror Music
Whether it's the infamous shower scene from Psycho, or the two-note terror of John Williams’ Jaws, the Horror genre has produced some of...
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Jack Hughes
Sep 18, 20203 min read
Promotional tips for composers: 4 ways to make a better first impression.
First impressions count for a lot, and in the highly competitive space of media composition it could mean the difference between being...
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Jack Hughes
Jun 26, 20203 min read
Networking In The Age Of Social Distancing
Networking is a key competent of success in any field whether it is business or artistic. Whilst the current situation around social...
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