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Here's something I try to emphasize to our students... the importance of using your creative content not as an end to themselves, but as a way to create more work and opportunity.

A friend of mine wrote a song and asked my to create a video. A healing balm for rough times https://youtu.be/xN6YuXcp0Sk

Finding the correct platforms for creative endeavors in this age of industry disruption is indeed challenging! Would love feedback from other instructors on this!

THIS is what filmmaking is all about. Using the safety protocols overall while still not allowing themselves to curtail their ambitions. I am of course assuming they have been keeping social distance from outsiders!

Giving students an idea on how to analyze the work of other students can be a challenge... but it's important we define the difference between evaluation for class and evaluation for the Real World!

This is from my friend Amy Wagner and is about a vet school in Scotland. However it is also true for the admins here who have remained able to keep the train moving.

USC classmate Amy Wagner posted this... How did she know what it's like to teach online to both high school and college!

Update from FilmLA... https://www.filmla.com/filmla-issues-third-update-on-prod/

Well, with the start of the new school semester thought it was time to go over what is happening in Hollywood this most interesting of years...

Talk about a geeked-out video... but one that shows a level of attention to detail in restoration that takes into consideration original intent.

This is not a surprise. The entertainment industry of the past twenty-five years or so has nothing but contempt for fans of their old titles, calling them derisively "fa**ots and losers" and their old back catalogues "a bunch of worthless s*it" (this from a casual conversation I once had with a VP of home video at a major studio). This actually explains Hollywood's overall inability to get its act together. Here, personified, is another arrogant action by Disney to leave money on the table despite a disastrous quarter. Thanks to Constantine Nasr for making us aware of even more Hollywood idiotic corporate behavior.

Thinking success is built on just money and not innovation and planning is not a good long term strategy. https://www.theguardian.com//quibi-netflix-jeffrey-katzenb

Independent producer Shane Stanley discusses the entertainment industry's response to CV19, particularly in terms of how it impacts lower budget productions.

The true vocation of a teacher, whether of STEM or Cinema. When I was in school, my teachers felt it was weird that I was obsessed with Jacqueline Susann in sixth grade, but they never stopped me.