Category: Blog
When writing gets personal
Writers share the need to tell stories, a compulsion of a true writer. Writers enjoy entertaining audiences – making people laugh, think, and feel.   Ultimately a Writer shares an important message with the audience. Most stories have a layered meaning, “Like when you peel an onion, you have to peel away each layer to reveal [...]
Wasted Time Writing
A friend of mine was being really hard on himself for allotting eight hours to write, then only writing for two of them. I said, “Well what did you do?” He said, “I read the trades, the newspapers, played guitar, and played “Tiger Woods Golf” on the Wii. After I impugned him for playing the [...]
Six Basic Questions – The Discovery of Being in Film
My time spent working in the field of Journalism taught me the importance of six basic questions. Why? When? Who? Where? What? And How? This is a very useful exercise in storytelling on a basic level. If you adapt the question to a film, they can be morphed to help establish insight into creating the [...]
Shared Writing Inspiration
I recently read the biography of Honore de Balzac, a French writer from the late nineteenth century. I very much enjoyed his stories and I thought it would be interesting to read about his life and the inspiration behind his genius. He wrote so many stories and I was curious what drove the ambition he [...]
Practiced Art of Inspiration
Inspiration is an enigma – mine comes and goes in cycles that defy any hope of consistent prediction. As a creative professional there is not a day that I have the luxury of not having some sort of inspiration. I used to feel like forced inspiration could never generate true creativity. As I continue to [...]
10 Tips for Getting Started in Hollywood
When I arrived in Los Angeles, it felt like a home to creative professionals and I met so many like-minded people. To arrive in Hollywood is a step towards career success, but your journey has only just started. There are so many resources and opportunities, but you have to work to find them. I was [...]
Entertainment Marketing: Creating Brand Recognition in Advertising
Digital video has made some editing practices simpler and added a creative flexibility that was not before possible. The post production process gives film professionals many different options from which to choose. The key to success of an advertising campaign is to begin the process with a well-developed concept or artistic map that will help [...]
