The Tax Credits: A Temporary Patch Aug 31 2011
The Business Reasons why the Artists are Being Asked to Work Longer Hours for a Flat Rate Aug 24 2011
Production Problems : Solving the industry Crisis with Management, not with a Union Aug 20 2011
Changes in the Currency Value; Downfall of the US Productions in Canada Jul 28 2011
Introduction Before we ”Talk” about one of the biggest factor that led to the current crisis in the film and television industry, a recap regarding the tax credits is a must. The tax credits offered in many countries around the world are creating a strong attraction to bring those big American feature films on their [...]
Our last post generated some interest from the entertainment industry. The community can be for or against unions, the importance is to help companies solve this industry crisis and it doesn’t matter if they are based in California, Canada, Australia, England, France, South Africa, Argentina, Chili, New Zealand, India or China. The reality is that [...]
Three months ago, Eric Roth, the executive director of the visual effects society have posted on the VES website an open letter to the VFX and to the entertainment industry. The letter talked about the problems the industry is currently facing including the outsourcing of specialized work, the lack of recognition for accomplishment of VFX [...]
The entertainment industry is facing difficult challenges and in Canada a higher value of the dollar increase the need for Government to raise Tax Credits to keep Production coming and Canadians Working. Globalization has put the world in competition for the same pie and now with the attractiveness of Asian countries for cheap labor and [...]
Aug 20, 2011
Three months ago, Eric Roth, the executive director of the visual effects society have posted on the VES website an open letter to the VFX and to the entertainment industry. The letter talked about the problems the industry is currently facing including the outsourcing of specialized work, the lack of recognition for accomplishment of VFX [...]
Jul 20, 2011
Social Networking as evolved to a point where it’s now crucial for business to be part of different social media networks. The tendency is so upbeat that we’re now seeing products and companies integrate social softwares to facilitate collaboration, communication & organization within the enterprise. The social project management system is currently at seed stage, [...]
Jul 14, 2011
Project Management is a set of rules, patterns, and techniques practice to lead project teams and watch over project schedule, cost, and performance risks to attain results and closing of a project. When we look into more details, 2 words comes in mind: “Project” is temporary goal and objective that consume time, resources and money, [...]
Oct 8, 2010
The production process can be very difficult to manage. Whether you’re creating a big budget blockbuster movie or an independent short film, there are many different departments involved in the process of creating a film or series, and each department is essential to the overall outcome of the production. The process is like a big [...]
Jun 25, 2009
Def: BPM an umbrella term for defining, recording and improving business processes. 01- Is the definition, recording and use of business rules 02- Is a method of gathering management information 03- Is a means of auditing everything a worker does 04- Is a logical progression from automation in the production line to automation in the [...]
Jun 11, 2009
Every company have their own business process. In the media & entertainment industry production companies, postproduction, visual effects studios and sound studios needs tools to manage critical enterprise information with a platform on top of which tools can be built so that business people can used them to manage the complete lifecycle of processes. Business [...]
May 10, 2009
01- Informational, capturing process information for purposes of understanding 02- Sequential, changing process sequence, or enabling parallelism 03- Collaborative, allowing participants to manage sets of shared work processes 04- Tracking, closely monitoring process status and participants 05- Integrative, consolidating and integrating sub-processes and tasks 06- Analytical, improving analysis of information and decision-making across processes 07- [...]
May 5, 2009
Summary Project management tools are pretty new for the entertainment industry and in many other industries. Since the introduction of MS Project, many other companies have been creating other products with similar functionalities. Some have succeed, others have failed. On the Internet, we can find many free or license softwares for all type businesses and [...]
The Tax Credits: A Temporary Patch The Business Reasons why the Artists are Being Asked to Work Longer Hours for a Flat Rate Production Problems : Solving the industry Crisis with Management, not with a Union Changes in the Currency Value; Downfall of the US Productions in Canada