Been rewatching all 5 seasons/156 episodes of the twilight zone. About halfway through. Quite a few episodes have no credits for music and in the imdb entry there are multiple music composer entries with 'uncredited stock music'. I assume they were paid. Now we are talking 1959 - 1964 for these episodes.
Now fast forward 60+ years to the world where 'work for hire' means as far as I know, your music can be paired with anything else and broken into parts and put anywhere.
How do you handle the scenario where you don't get on film credit and the listening audience can't tell who scored the music they have heard.
Many years ago, I was asked to score a film that the director had planned to use three composers and assign cues to each of them by scene. I stepped off that gig. Two years ago, I was offered a contract where the director had the option of completely removing all my scored music and replacing it with something else after a year. I turned it down.
How do you feel about not working solo (aside from music supervisory song additions)? Do you charge differently?
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You're talking Goldsmith, Herrmann, Steiner, Cleave, etc. You know they got the do re mi.
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There are many great projects where there are multiple composers involved. As long as pay and credits are equitable, I don't really see the issue with it.
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As Brandy Camille suggests, I don't see a problem with it, as long as all are credited and paid. I might want to make sure we get along well before starting the Project.