Jack Hughes
ARTICLE: Composers - How To Prepare For an Orchestral Scoring Session.
Recording with a live orchestra is an experience that all composers dream of. Nothing can beat the experience of hearing 50+ musicians...
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Jack Hughes
- Mar 30, 2022
- 5 min
ARTICLE - How To Find Inspiration and Stay Creative. 5 Practical Tips for Composers.
A creative or inspirational slump is something that we all go through from time to time. It's an inevitable part of being an artist. This...
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Jack Hughes
- Dec 29, 2021
- 4 min
Composers: How to Start a YouTube Channel and Produce Your Own Content.
Starting the Channel YouTube is a platform where users can share their videos with millions of others, making it the perfect place for...
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Jack Hughes
- Nov 6, 2021
- 3 min
ARTICLE: Persistence & Patience. What Composers Can Learn From Fishermen.
Fishing is one of the earliest known human activities and can be found across all cultures and climates. This is also true of music, and...
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Jack Hughes
- Oct 14, 2021
- 6 min
GUEST POST: 5 Reasons to Work with a Co-composer - Two Twenty Two.
Welcome back to the Northern Film Orchestra blog. Today we are pleased to share with you the latest in our series of guest-written...
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Jack Hughes
- Oct 7, 2021
- 3 min
GUEST POST: 5 Alternative Income Streams for Composers - Sam Allen.
Welcome back to the NFO blog. Today we are excited to share with you a guest post penned by Composer and Manchester resident Sam Allen....
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Jack Hughes
- Sep 25, 2021
- 5 min
How To Sell Yourself As A Composer - 5 Tips For Success.
You may compose the greatest music of all time, but it doesn’t matter if no one is there to witness it. So many creative,...
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Jack Hughes
- Sep 14, 2021
- 8 min
Composers – 5 Tips For a Killer Website.
If you read our last blog post, you would have seen us refer to the website as the central hub of all of your operations. Everything goes...
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Jack Hughes
- Aug 29, 2021
- 1 min
NEW VIDEO: How To Orchestrate for Strings, with Zach Heyde.
We are delighted to share with you a new educational video from composer Zach Heyde discussing the topic of arranging & orchestration for...
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Jack Hughes
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
New Years Resolutions For Composers.
The start of a new year is a great time to take stock of where you are at in your career, and set yourself new goals and ambitions for...
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Jack Hughes
- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
Film Composers: 5 Tips For Writing Horror Music
Whether it's the infamous shower scene from Psycho, or the two-note terror of John Williams’ Jaws, the Horror genre has produced some of...
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Jack Hughes
- Sep 18, 2020
- 3 min
Promotional tips for composers: 4 ways to make a better first impression.
First impressions count for a lot, and in the highly competitive space of media composition it could mean the difference between being...
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Jack Hughes
- Jun 26, 2020
- 3 min
Networking In The Age Of Social Distancing
Networking is a key competent of success in any field whether it is business or artistic. Whilst the current situation around social...
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Jack Hughes
- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
Film Composers: 5 tips for a better mix.
Mixing is one of many stages in the process of creating music for film. The mixing process involves balancing all of the different...
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Jack Hughes
- May 27, 2020
- 3 min
Composers: 5 Tips to Stay Productive Through Covid-19.
As Covid-19 continues to disrupt daily life worldwide, many of us now have a lot more time on our hands than we are used to. If you are a...
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