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Best practices: How to manage and reduce stress
Real Insights BlogSome stress in your life is good. You want to feel challenged, alive, and striving for excellence.
Pointed Arrow debuts
Real Insights Blog“Pointed Arrow” is a new column from John Smithson, creative director of Arrow Media, an indie he co-founded this year. Previously he was chief executive of Darlow Smithson Productions.
Best practices: Eight things you should be doing to land a job (but probably aren’t)
Real Insights BlogWhether you are a freelance professional or are just starting out, when it comes to finding a new job in the current market, you probably have become frustrated, disillusioned, and just plain exhausted. Stay positive. You are not alone.
One (real) life to live
BLOGS / Real Insights Blog / TVABC’s cancellation of One Life to Live and All My Children sends a clear message: soap operas are over. Except they aren’t really dead; they’ve just transformed.
Building a Format Business the “Stringer” Bell Way
BLOGS / Real Insights BlogWhat does the competitive world of formats have in common with the mean streets of Baltimore, as seen in The Wire? In this op-ed, Jago Lee, creative director at London-based Nerd, lets you know.
“Inside Job” odds on for Oscar
BLOGS / FILM / Real Insights BlogThe ballots have been turned in and Academy members have decided which film will emerge from this year’s shortlist as the winner in the Oscars’ best documentary feature category. Realscreen associate editor Adam Benzine weighs in with his thoughts on which doc will take the prize, and why.
The rights stuff
Real Insights BlogDarlow Smithson Productions EP and chief executive John Smithson reveals some tips on how to secure rights for that project you just have to make… before someone else does. We call it rights-stalking. It’s the obsessive, time-consuming, expensive and sometimes futile search for story rights that you hope will lead to a prime commission. It’s [...]
Getting it done in South Africa
Real Insights BlogProducer Joe Kennedy of Table Mountain Films established a South Africa office in 2007. In this post, he discusses his recent experience producing an episode of PBS’ Secrets of the Dead, and offers insights into the advantages of bringing a project to South Africa. It seems that budgets for television documentaries are on an ever-downward [...]
Tips for rips: how to work with the new DMCA exemption
Real Insights BlogMichael Donaldson, founding partner of Donaldson & Callif, was part of the team that drafted the request to the U.S. Copyright Office which called for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that would allow documentarians some leeway in using materials from encrypted DVDs in their own projects. Here, he provides some advice [...]
Eyes on the prize: predictions for the reality Emmy nominations
Real Insights BlogAndy Dehnart, reality TV critic and writer/publisher of realityblurred.com, offers his take on what should be nominated in the reality categories for this year’s primetime Emmy Awards, and what programs should be left off the list. While the announcement of the primetime Emmy nominations on Thursday may offer some suspense and drama for producers, broadcasters [...]
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