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Composer's Expenses Composer's Expenses I guess it depends on how THEY define composer's expenses. But I would caution you about accepting deals like this. Basically you are assuming their business risk by taking a job on these terms. They are saying, if we're successful, you get paid, if...

getting paid getting paid I would agree with the original poster. You should get paid for your work. If the filmmaker has no music budget then they can fool around with garageband or something but if you are seriously going to give your time writing music then you should be compensated...

Fee advice Fee advice There really is no average fee. An independent film can have a music budget of $0 and range as high as $200K and still be considered a low budget film. Fees also take into consideration the size of the orchestration involved. Is it all done in the studio with samples...

I've used music on a royalty free CD called Pianoscapes for 2 of my film projects. Its solo piano and it fits in nicely as soundtrack for my films. I've also used Apple's Soundtrack but unlike Soundtrack, the Pianoscapes disc is already composed music that you can just lay into your timeline...