MOVING TO LA: 5 Financial Tips for Taking the Leap!
Great news! You’re moving to Los Angeles: the city of angels, the home of Hollywood. A travel destination full of movie stars and glamorous lifestyles, opportunities and challenges. As several friends told us when we planned to move to LA, “You’re brave.” We didn’t...
ORIGINS OF INSPIRATION: 5 Creators and the Films That Inspire Them
What do Scream, Jaws, and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? have to do with one another? They all inspired Jordan Peele in the writing of Get Out, the Academy Award-winning screenplay that lent a fresh voice to an ongoing discourse about race in America. That got us...
ACTING FOR A LIVING: How Daniel R. Hill Books Work
In addition to being well-trained and really good, how can you turn your flair for the dramatic into a regular income? We got such fresh perspective from Daniel R. Hill’s interview, we had to share some of his secrets to working full-time as an actor. 1. Confidence is...
FIVE ON FOURTH: 5 Movies to Celebrate on Independence Day
Happy Fourth of July! Four score and seven years ago (plus about 15 decades, during which we stopped measuring time with “scores”), the colonies of the New World claimed our independence from England. It took eight years of war to get them to agree, but...
HITTING THE RIGHT NOTES: How to Effectively Implement Feedback
As essential as it is to get feedback on your work—from co-creators, production team members, focus groups, etc.—does anyone really enjoy this part of the creative process? Receiving notes the wrong way, or from the wrong person, can frustrate your process and even...