Archive for the ‘Career Development’ Category
Producer’s POV Column: Writers’ #1 Fear: I’m Not Good Enough
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Producer Anne Marie Gillen recently posed this question to our Mastermind Group: ”What keeps you awake at night? What are those nasty thoughts that keep playing around in your head? The shoulda-coulda-woulda?” It stimulated such an open and honest discussion about our communal fears and insecurities that we entrepreneurial artists all share but rarely give voice to, I thought [...]
Tags: A Confederacy of Dunces, Anne Marie Gillen, communal fears, entrepreneurial artists, Heather Hale, insecurities, Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger, John Kennedy Toole, Mastermind Group, Mr. Holland's Opus, Producer's POV, Producer’s Point of View, Red Vineyard at Arles, Script Magazine, shoulda-coulda-woulda, The Vigne Rouge, The Writer's Store, Theo, Van Gogh, What keeps you awake at night?
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Getting Things Right
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
I’ve just finished reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I am struck by how useful a simple checklist can be to professionals as divergent as surgeons in the emergency room to commercial airline pilots in eliminating potentially fatal mistakes in incredibly stressful situations. While not usually life threatening, our decisions [...]
Tags: 1998, artist, Atul Gawande, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, commercial airline pilot, Director, ditched, emergency room, entertainment industry, entrepreneur, ER, Geoffrey H. Smart, greenlight, Heather Hale, independent filmmaker, Internal Rate of Return, IRR, LitCentral, Miracle on the Hudson, networks, Producer, production funds, screenwriter, surgeons, The Airline Captain, The Art and Science of Human Capital Valuation, The Art Critic, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, The Infiltrator, the Prosecutor, The Sponge, The Suitor, The Terminator, US Airways Flight 1549, VC, venture capitalists
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Which Camera Should We Shoot On?
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
You should never pick your DP based on what camera he or she owns or has access to or can get discounts on. The decision on which DP to hire should be based on his or her talent (not just the reel but entire films – several of them), reputation, relationships, referrals, shared vision for [...]
Tags: 2K, 35mm, 48 fps, 5D mkII, Arri Alexa, ASC, camera, Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, CineStyle, Clairmont Camera, color quality, compression, compression losses, Director, documentary, DP, drum test, Dynamic Range test, equipment, exposure latitude, film, flesh tone reproduction, General Lift, global shutter, highlight detail, human eyesight, It’s Not So Black & White, Kodak 5213, Kodak 5219, large scale technical camera, lens, low light sensitivity, Matt Seigel, Michael Bravin, Mike Curtis, Motion Artifacts, Nancy Schreiber, Nikon D7000, off-board recording, on-board, Panasonic AG-AF100, Phantom Flex, Price Point, Processing Power, Producer, Red Epic, RED ONE M-X, resolution, Robert Primes, Rolling Shutter, S Log, sensor, Sensor Design, Sensors & Sensitivity, SFR, shadow detail, sharpness, shutter artifacts, Siemen star chart, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, skew, Sony F-35, Sony F3, Spatial Frequency Response, Stephen Lighthill, sub-sampling, The Great Camera Shootout 2011, The Over Exposure Test, The Tipping Point, three episodes, Under Exposure Test, usable latitude, Weisscam HS-2, Wringer chart
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GATE 2 – What an Amazing Event! ;-)
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
GATE (the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) is a nonprofit 501c(6) membership trade association that strives to inspire and empower professionals in the media, entertainment and arts to consciously create and distribute transformational content. Founded by visionary Chairman and CEO, John Raatz, last night’s “coming out” event brought “the tribe” together to activate and catalyze [...]
Tags: 12/22/12, 196 countries of the world in alphabetical order, Amish Grace, Annie Lennox, Ash Ruiz, Baba Oyadare Ranson III, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Damien Rose, Dara Marks, Didgeridoo, Don Miguel Ruiz, Drew Dellinger, Eckhart Tolle, Edward James Olmos, Faith Rivera, Frances Fisher, Fred Alan Wolf, Funkamentalz, Gary Zukav, GATE, Gate Community, Gate2, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, Hieroglyphic Stairway, Inside Story, It's 3:23 in the morning, Jahan Raymond, Jean Houston, Jim Carrey, John Raatz, Kate McCallum, Kyle Cease, Lili Hadyn, Louie Anderson, Marianne Williamson, Marta Mobley, my great great grandchildren, NOW, only a new seed can yield a new crop, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Quantum Physics, Rafael Bejarano, SuperBowl XLVI, The Four Agreements, Tibetan Bowl, violin, Wade Colwell-Sandoval, what did you do, Worldside
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Flash Forward is Back! :)
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
I’m really excited and truly honored to be coaching the first big Flash Forward in years. I’m thrilled to be joining a dozen terrific alumni coaches (see list below), all of us volunteering our time to mentor and support the 80 actors, directors, TV and film screenwriters, playwrights, producers, composers, singers, musicians, magicians, comedians, Dept [...]
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