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Valerie Bundy has been an actor for close to thirty years, working mostly in touring theatre, before building a second career as a writer and producer of her own short films. Her break came almost by accident. A performer dropped out of a touring production with the Shakespearean Young People's Theatre Company, and …
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Lyndon Saunders spent seventeen years in broadcast media before he ever stood in front of a lecture hall. He started out at a small independent production company in his early twenties, which meant getting hands-on experience from day one. It turned out to be exactly the training ground he needed. It didn't take …
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Ben Harris-Hayes has done pretty much everything a musician can do. Bands, touring, session work, record labels, composing for film, TV, and, for the past few years, a full-time role composing and designing sound for games. He didn't plan it that way. He just kept going, kept saying yes to whatever was in front of him, …
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Greg Veryard spent ten years in telecoms management. He worked his way up, managed teams across multiple locations, and by his own admission felt dead inside for most of it. The money was okay. The job was not. Then in 2019, in the same week, he was made redundant and had his shoulder broken. He called it the best …
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There's a lot of content out there about the music and media industry. Courses, guides, YouTube explainers, LinkedIn posts telling you the five things you need to do to get your music placed in film and TV. Some of it is genuinely useful. A lot of it is surface-level or optimistic in a way that doesn't quite match the …
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Jack Hughes didn't set out to run an orchestra. He set out to record some music. It was a practical decision more than anything. Composing work was sporadic, the income wasn't reliable, and he figured that if he wrote a new batch of tracks, recorded them with a string quartet, and gave his website a refresh, he'd at …
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Interview Q&A: Catherine Cousins, 2QT Publishing Having produced a number of audio books, I have never really had much of an understanding about the process of book publishing or how it works. This indepth blog interview is with Catherine Cousins of 2QT Limited who kindly agreed to answer many of the key …
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