As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies of one. In Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers,Jeremy Borum provides valuable guidance on how to make a good film score both quickly and inexpensively. This handbook encompasses the entire film scoring process including education, preparation, writing and recording a score, editing, mixing and mastering, finding work, career development, and sample contracts. Offering strategic tools and techniques, this insider’s guide draws on the expertise from a number of prominent composers in movies, television, and video gaming, including Stewart Copeland, Bruce Broughton, and Jack Wall. A straightforward do-it-yourself manual, this book will help composers at all levels create the best-sounding scores quickly and cost effectively―without jeopardizing their art. With access to rare and extremely useful input from the best in the business, Guerrilla Film Scoring will benefit not only students but also professionals looking to update their game. “If ever there was a perfect book for describing and navigating today’s film scoring industry, Guerrilla Film Scoring is the one.... If you have ever wanted to write music for movies, pick up this book and take every word to heart. It may just be the most important guide you’ll ever read.” ― Film Matters “Jeremy Borum’s Guerrilla Film Scoring is the first guide to provide new cutting-edge solutions for composers to deliver quality music with ever-shrinking budgets. . . .Borum and 20 of his celebrity colleagues (including Stewart Copeland, Bruce Broughton, Jack Wall, Garry Schyman, and Austin Wintory) successfully navigate the reader through today’s volatile music industry. With over 300 written testimonials and a 90 minute documentary film they deliver timely solutions for education, preparation, writing and recording a score, editing, mixing and mastering, finding work, career development, and sample contracts. . . .A straightforward do-it-yourself manual, this book is helping composers at all levels to create the best-sounding scores quickly and cost effectively without jeopardizing their art.” ― Virtual-Strategy Magazine “Jeremy Borum argues with electrifying clarity that a film composer today must be a warrior with a multitude of survival skills. He and his widely experienced interviewees explain the why and the how, in an essential guide for every practicing and would-be composer for visual media.” ―Bill Elliott, professor, Berklee College of Music “What a great book! I've been addressing some of these subjects for several years in my USC class, but nothing as thorough and all-encompassing as Borum has accomplished. He has addressed all of the current scoring issues with forthright and honest information. This book will be an invaluable tool for our next generation of film composers. I will certainly be adding it to the top of my mandatory reading list for my class.” ―Eric Schmidt, professor, USC Thornton School of Music “Your book is awesome and I cannot wait for it be to officially available. I'll assign it to all my students as a mandatory read, and will adopt many advices from it in my own artistic and professional career.” ―Milica Paranosic, professor, The Juilliard School “Guerrilla Film Scoring contains a lot of practical knowledge, and it systematically breaks down the realities and challenges facing film composers today. The book includes very useful contributions from professionals, and it will certainly be useful to anybody in the field of scoring.” ―Peter Neff, professor, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music “This book provides useful and timely insights into the commercial realities of Hollywood filmmaking and the evolving nature film music practice. This should be required reading for any aspiring screen composer.” ―Vasco Hexel, Area Leader Composition for Screen, Royal College of Music, London “Jeremy Borum has done something quite extraordinary. He provided a highly organized and comprehensive summation of what a film composer needs to know about the industry today. This is different from the books one finds in stores, in that it is written from an insider's point of view. In that way it is unique.” ―Richard Danielpour, Grammy-winning composer; professor, Manhattan School of Music and Curtis Institute of Music “This is the sort of book I've been hoping someone would write for a very long time. It's an important practical outlook on the contemporary realities of scoring, and it will become part of my curriculum immediately.” ―Barry Schrader, professor, California Institute of the Arts “This book fills a needed gap. There are several good technical books about film scoring available to students. But there hasn't been―until now―