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Registrations for the 38th annual Screen Forever, Australia’s premier screen industry event presented by Screen Producers Australia, are open. The program consists of five distinct program strands. - Breaking Boundaries - exploring heavy-hitting topics such as policy reform and the social effects of world events. - Creative Difference - looking at how cultural and technological shifts can positively impact the screen sector and audiences. - Keeping it Real - with themed sessions focusing on unscripted and factual projects and how they resonate with audiences. - Making it Rain - exploring how key funding, buying, and streaming executives commission and finance projects. - All Screen Business Begins With a Story – focusing on stories from diverse places, with sessions investigating how producers find these, access them, and bring them to life. Learn more. https://lnkd.in/g93hbx8j

With festival season upon us again, a PSA: If you do marketing or press for a festival, you do know the WORST thing you can do is give out the email addresses and social handles for your few remaining local journalists to each of your individual participating artists and encourage them all to bombard said journos with dozens if not hundreds of individual story pitches ... don't you? You have to know that ... right??? (If you don't, the humane way to do it is act as the sole press contact for your beleaguered journos. Work with them to quickly identify a possible angle or two. An overall theme. That kind of thing. Don't make them have to sift through every possible pitch and put them in the position of being the bad guy who has say, "Sorry, no" forty times. Setting up the false expectation that any one journo is even possibly capable of writing up all of your artists' stories just bruises their feelings and overwhelms your journos. Worse, it might just send them scrambling to cover something else. This has been a PSA. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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You’d think that BFFs with no arguments would make for a great creative team at Miami Ad School (M.AD School), right? 🤔 Wrong, says Niklas Frings-Rupp, Educational Instructor at Miami Ad School Europe. “The worst team is always made up of people who are good friends who can’t argue with each other.” 👀 In this talk from D&AD Festival with Adobe, Miami Ad School alumni go deeper into how creative teams are formed at the school. Watch more on D&AD, and find out what makes for the best dynamics between members: https://bit.ly/3O8kQeF

Kerry quizzing the boys at Creative Technology on their technical skills 💻💻 Before every hybrid event our team will do a full rehearsal of the event to make sure that everything runs smoothly on the day ⭐ During the rehearsal we are: 🟡 Making sure the timings are right. 🟡 Double checking all presentations are working. 🟡 Deciding on the best camera angle for the live broadcast. 🟡 Working with the sound engineer to make sure the audio is okay. A lot goes into organising a hybrid event. A lot of moving parts need to line up perfectly for it to be a success. Don’t do it alone, we are experts at executing high-quality hybrid events. Let us help!! Go to our website to find out more about Go West and what we do ❤ #Eventmanagement #EventProfs #VirtualEvent

Looking forward to our panel, 'Creator Economics, the social stars building real world businesses', with Jide and Ibrahim (GUAP), Caroline Hirons and Brandon B 👇

When people want to do something, their concerns fly out the window. They just have to believe the event is truly worth it. AKA’s Head of Business Intelligence, Marc Jablonski, unpacks this theory for live entertainment and how to use AKA’s “Worth It Index” to maximize attendance. Read the article at: https://lnkd.in/eyUAuYPN

🌿When preforming a live broadcast, 1) Make sure your sound system is clear and, at a volume one's audience can hear each other. 2) Apologies to your audience when you are late. 3) One's title is not nearly as important as the individual's name and, the way they convey themselves including, the subject/s matter/s. 4) The host nor, the co-host should ever lie to their audience, for any reason.

You might recognize a 'certain voice' in this documentary, that of Sgt. John Plummer, 1st Minnesota Volunteers! Special thanks to William Eichler and the great folks at HistoryFix for giving me the opportunity! Want to watch? Head over to www.historyfix.com or any of our web apps to watch and enjoy! New and renewing subscriptions (or those upgrading to the more cost efficient annual plan) save 25% with code GB160 Enjoy!! #history #education #historyeducation #streaming #documentary