Archive for the ‘Craft’ 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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The Minimalist Guide To Understanding The Commerce Of A Script
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
I recently did an interview/blog for GLOCUL MAG - Tackling The Business Side of Creativity: The Minimalist Guide To Understanding The Commerce Of A Script
Tags: Art, balance, commerce, commercial viability, film, Screenplay, script, television, tips, union matrix, writing low-budget films
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Producer’s POV: New Column Just Launched for Script Magazine!
Friday, March 8th, 2013
How (and Where) Should I Pitch My TV Show? It Depends… Like any other sales activity, you have to consider: What it is you’re trying to sell? What is your actual product? How can you best show it off? Who are you selling it to? Do they even want what you’re trying to sell them? [...]
Tags: ABC Family, bible, cable, IFTA, NBC, networks, pitching, Producer's POV, proposal, Script Magazine, The Writer's Store, TV Land, USA, Writing for TV
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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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