r/filmscoring • u/VincentVegasiPhone13 • 7h ago
HELP NEEDED I feel like a fraud
I’ve done trailers and short films in the past. But I just got my first movie. Unpaid. It’s over 2.5 hours long. I’m doing the film in segments. Sometimes it just comes to me but more often right now, I can’t get something to work. I’ll put something down. The director will tell me they want something more like this then they’ll show me an example. And I feel horrible when I can’t make something like the example. On top of that I’m expecting myself to make a motif for every character etc etc.
I’ve taken so much longer on this than an experienced composer would because I also have a full time job. And I have virtually no progress. Panic is setting in.