[ddots-l] Re: Employment versus Self-Employment: Options for the Blind Audio Producer
- From: Chelsea Dye <lady.arwen15@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:16:39 -0400
Great stuff, Chris! I definitely wouldn't mind being my own boss. But hopefully
I can get to the point where I can have other people representing me one day.
When I listen to audio dramas online, look at a friend's website and see what
he's doing as far as radio shows and podcasts, etc., or even one of my trance
DJ friend's podcasts, my thought is: "Hey, I can do that! I should get paid to
do that!" Same thing when I was cutting together an interview I did in college
and putting commercials together, even with the setup they had there, which was
hard to work with.
Cheers,
Chels
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: August 28, 2011 5:26 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Employment versus Self-Employment: Options for the
Blind Audio Producer
Chelsea, any job market connected to music, radio broadcast, audio,
studios etc. is likely to be very very compeditive. The technology
is cheap and plentiful, the colleges are pumping tons of people
out, and the economic situation, with traditional big studios
cutting back or closing, radio stations continuing to streamline,
etc. is scary.
My advice would be to do a little of everything, if you can. Maybe
you'll be editing or mixing audio one day, recording someone
another day, teaching an instrument another day if you're a
musician and like to teach...
Really, you are your own boss, marketer, advertiser, and just about
everything else.
Word of mouth is still crucial. Get some happy customers, and they
will tell more people.
There are two sides to the democratization of audio and video. On
the one hand, anybody can create their own stuff on a laptop or
phone or whatever, from anywhere in the world, and instantly make
it available. So while there's tons of music online now, there's
also a lot of crap! The oil rises to the top of the pool, but so
does the scum. :) It's one big race to the bottom.
What I do a lot of is convincing amateurs that they need my help,
my ears, and my skills on their projects and more than that, they
need to pay me for the help! They need to realize that their stuff
needs to sound better than the average out there, so it somehow
rises above the deafening roar online.
For every genius out there doing their own stuff, there are many
many more people who don't have a clue. They need our help!
Chris
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