Monthly blog roundup Liz Hover
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Posted by Liz Hover
on Monday, November 17, 2008.
Categories: NSI
Every month I'll be doing a blog roundup highlighting some of the best posts from the previous four weeks.
Kicking things off this month (in no particular order) are five posts from our fabulous bloggers. If there are other posts you found useful, please tell me in the comments box below.
Who blogs on the NSI website?
When the
National Screen Institute launched its new website back in June we
enlisted the services of some of Canada's coolest industry folks to
blog for us. Since then, they've been busy posting their stuff to our
website. We thought you'd like to know a bit more about them. Read more...
Career development in media
Introducing
new blogger, Jason Wodlinger. Jason has worked as a freelance artist,
producer and writer and he'll be blogging about the nuances of career
development in media. Jason will suggest useful job seeking tactics and
ideas. He'll also talk about the emotional and psychological
preparation needed
to face the fact that if you want it badly enough then you deserve a
rewarding career in the industry. Read more...
Feature film financing
Producers
are typically considered the “suits” on a film set, while the writers,
actors and directors are deemed the artists. And although it's true a
producer has to be skilled in the business side of moviemaking, when it
comes to financing a film, Cheryl Binning thinks producers are among
the most creative... after all they have to come up with imaginative
ways to fund a film. Read more...
Creating a vision document
NSI alumna E. Jane Thompson begins work on a "vision" document for her feature The Berliner Complex. The document contains a collection
of images: photographs, painting references, renderings, and possibly storyboards, used to introduce the film to
distributors, potential investors and actors. Read more...
Short film distribution
It's a complicated thing - the world of short film distribution, says Sundance Channel's Ian Bricke in this essay, full of great tips, that he wrote for Sharon Badal’s recently published Swimming Upstream: A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution. Read more...
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The views expressed here are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI).