#018 · 5 October 2026
7 opportunities this week, including $76k–$109k at Sony Music producing music with composers, and £750 for a London crime series where guns are outlawed and enforcers carry swords
Also: $400 to score a four-minute line-dancing short, and three loopable tracks for a medieval Survivors-like.
Sony Music is hiring a producer for Bleeding Fingers Music at $76,600–$109,400, to develop briefs with composers and give them production notes on music for film, television and video games. A London crime series pays £750 for its first episode: guns are outlawed there, and sword-wielders have become the enforcers. A four-minute line-dancing student short pays $400 for its score. On the game side, a medieval Survivors-like is commissioning three loopable tracks and its sound effects for a beta. Below those are $250 for an animated short about a cage fighter who cannot die, and two unpaid briefs: a hand-drawn dragon short and a 1920s portal adventure. Of the 280 listings I read this week, seven are in the issue.
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Professional
Sony Music · $76,600–$109,400 per year · Santa Monica, CA · Full-time · No deadline stated
Bleeding Fingers Music wants a producer to procure and produce music for film, television and video games from conception to final delivery: developing briefs with composers, giving them detailed production notes and reviewing submissions. It is a producer's post, working alongside composers, but it prefers experience in film scoring or working with media composers, and fluency in a DAW such as Pro Tools, Logic Pro or Ableton Live. It requires three or more years in music production, audio engineering or a related field, is based in Santa Monica, needs authorisation to work in the US, and asks for flexibility to work evenings or weekends.
Indie
S-Tier (Mandy.com) · £750 flat rate (no duration provided) · Remote · Crime mini-series (episode one of three) · Closes October 31
Set in a London where guns are fully outlawed and modern-day sword-wielders have become the top enforcers, this crime series wants a score that is tense, dark and atmospheric but can throw in rap, blues and jazz. Director Boris Steele is ID-checked with 33 jobs posted on Mandy, and on those credentials this would sit in Professional; £750 flat for episode one of three, with no running time given, is what holds it in Indie. It is in post-production with the work done remotely in October, and the IMDb credit listed under contract details is standard practice rather than an extra.
Ava Blanco (CastingCall.club) · $400 flat · Location not stated · Animated short (4 min) · No deadline stated
A bright, campy 2D animated thesis film of four minutes, set in a modern country line-dancing bar. It follows an insecure girl whose two left feet set off a domino effect ending in a disco inferno and literal fire. The score is one well-defined job: modern country leaning into rock and possibly pop, built on guitar, bass and drums, delivered as wav and mp3 with stems. $400 flat for the soundtrack of a four-minute film is easy to weigh before you apply.
Ori (CastingCall.club) · $250 flat · Location not stated · Student animated short · Deadline October 22
A student animated short about a cage-fighting champion who loses for the first time, kills her victor, and finds she can never die. It pays $250 on what the poster calls a student budget, for music spanning action, suspense, discordant sounds and punk rock. The poster would like the score finalised by late December or early January, with trailer music hoped for by late March or early April. Four genres for $250 is a lot to cover; ask for the running time when you apply.
Closed
PRS (r/gameDevClassifieds) · Paid, rate not stated · Location not stated · Survivors-like game (beta) · No deadline stated
An indie studio is commissioning original music and sound for the beta of Neant Survivors, a medieval-fantasy Survivors-like: two loopable menu tracks, one loopable gameplay track, weapon effects across blades, shots and impacts, and UI sounds. The post names no figure and asks for your rates, workflow and availability. The commission includes commercial usage rights: price them in rather than quoting for the files alone.
Collaborative
SRStudios (CastingCall.club) · Unpaid · Location not stated · Animated short (~10 min) · No deadline stated
A hand-drawn 2D fantasy short of about ten minutes. A masked fae-halfling sent by the King to kill the Lindworm learns the dragon is the King's eldest son, cursed at birth, and sets out to end its carnage peacefully. The music runs from intense, fast-paced battle scenes to background music that is healing and uplifting, with three reference links in the post and free choice of software. It is unpaid, in early pre-production and due to be finished in April 2027: one for building a reel, not an income.
Anora (CastingCall.club) · Unpaid · Location not stated · Adventure game · No deadline stated
Reverie is a story-driven adventure game set in 1920s England and inspired by Undertale and Deltarune: four children find a portal in the woods to a magical world being destroyed by giants born from dark magic. The brief already names four tracks, with more likely as development continues: an unsettling piece that feels slightly wrong without being scary, a general exploration theme, a 1920s town theme and a magical-world exploration theme. For the overall sound it points to acoustic guitar, piano and violins. It is unpaid; what it offers instead is a brief specific enough to write to from the first day.
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