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Keeping Focused in the Creative, Entertainment and Media Industry
Posted by admin in Entertainment News, Media on October 6, 2011
Being successful in the creative, entertainment and media industry is no longer as simple as getting a job and climbing the career ladder of your choice.
As an actor, a musician, a writer, a producer, a director, an editor, a cameraman, a designer, a make up or costume designer, a production manager, a programme maker or an administrator or a manager, you now have to think outside the box and be flexible and open to opportunities.
It now requires more than just the professional skills and qualifications you’ve acquired, and even those need updating regularly as technology progresses at a rapid rate. You have to manage your own mindset, stay focused, network, build and maintain contacts and chase work – you have to be a business and do your own PR and marketing. At times, this can be frustrating, disheartening, stressful and exhausting.
Tips for keeping focused when you’re looking for work
* Maintain a routine from Monday to Friday
* Get up at the same time each day – it doesn’t have to be the crack of dawn! And go to bed at the same time each day. Read the rest of this entry »
Entertainment, Media, and Technology Shape the World
Posted by admin in Entertainment News, Media on October 6, 2011
The overwhelming technology has been advertised by famous celebrity likewise being used in the movies. This phenomenon is greatly influencing the people of different races. The advertisement and the movie played a vital role in shaping the world. Most of the scenes and the styles of the person involved are being imbibe by persons especially the young ones where they will be the future mobilizers of the next generation.
I’m not saying that the entertainment and the media industry is not producing a quality product, but the most of the time the focus lies on how much will be the return of investment (ROI). One way or another, the profit leads us to produce something giving only a bit of emphasis on the values embedded in a movie or on advertisements.
Although we have different cultures, there are similar things that surely affects our affective part, the instinct that we as the highest mammal of the animal domain. The ironic part only is that there are things that of no value to others but it has a great value to other races. The Western countries are of huge difference from Asian countries and part of Africa. It means that there things that are not suited for the lifestyle of the other. The movies being produced are shipped to these countries and it will be viewed by lots of young ones (18 above and 28 below). What do you think will be the end product that will be created in minds of these individual and soon be acted upon? Read the rest of this entry »
Media and Politics – What Is the Role of Media in Politics?
There has been some rumbling in the UK media about the plight of a US media company over what a British media company did. Now both of these companies do share the same parent company, and there has not been any evidence that the media company, which is based in the US, did anything wrong. That has not stopped British liberals from salivating over the demise of a media empire, an empire that could be said donates millions of dollars to the very causes they support. It just so happens that the media empire covers the news of the day from a perspective that they do not agree with. In fact the owner of the company does not seem to agree with the news his company produces, if campaign donations are an indicator of his political leanings.
You might be asking yourself what this all about and if you are American, it would be understandable. Because lets face it, British scandals do not compete well with the next missing blonde on national TV or cable news channels. The scandal in question is the News of the World alleged hacking of cell phones in Britain and apparently 9/11 families now. Which is quite a serious charge and as we know with Liberals it is the seriousness of the charge that matters, not the evidence.
So the story goes that the British paper, News of the World, hacked a murder victim’s cell phone, hacked the cell phones of the 7/7 terrorists and even the phones of the royal family. Of course all of this is still being investigated and Rupert Murdoch has stated that it did not happen, he even said that his company investigated the issue when it first came up and found nothing. That has not stopped the British Parliament from trying to bring down News of the World though and Scotland yard is investigating the allegations. Read the rest of this entry »