I worked on a short web film for Singapore Airlines recently, as part of their Visit Western Australia campaign. It was pretty interesting how I got this gig. I actually got a Whatsapp message from one of their producers asking me if I happened to have music in my own library of a particular style. She had actually gotten my number from one of my other composer friends. I didn't happen to have anything in my "orphan" music folder (Music folder containing music pieces that wer

Seems a little early to be doing music for a season that is still months away, but commercial composers are usually doing seasonal music months in advance, as seasonal commercials start to be planned and produced. There are also instances where the production of some seasonals are done at the last minute, about 2 - 3 weeks before the actual airing of the commercial. This is when the music production process can get a little hectic, and I have a very limited amount of time to

Some months ago, I got a call from one of the studios I work with regularly and they urgently needed music for an 8 minute web commercial (disguised as a short movie). As I was at the tail end of another mammoth project (the subject of another rant-filled post), I took on the project. It is the trend nowadays that more and more commercials are published straight to YouTube, since it doesn't require expensive media-buys (paying for commercials to be broadcast on TV). And since

In April 2018, I got a call from Addy, a fellow composer who was working on a Vietnamese movie called "100 Ngay Ben Em (100 Days of Sunshine)" and she she was in quite a bind. The post-production on this movie was put on hold and when it was on again, she was only told only a couple of weeks before they had to finish the audio post on the movie. This meant that she was up to her neck in music cues to do at the eleventh hour. She knew that in order to meet the deadline, she wo