A multi-author discussion of the creative industries in the digital age
I attended the Adobe Max conference, and I was able to learn a lot about being a professional artist. I thought the sessions were a good platform to learn more about different fields of art and film as well as different artists’ perspectives. There was a lot of new information I learned through these sessions, […]
Being an artist is hard, at least for me. It can be overwhelming to realize all of the skills, time, and products it takes to become a professional artist. Especially for film, we need to be able to own cameras, writing software, editing software, and more, not to mention all of the time it takes […]
In fifth grade, it was known to me that unleashing my creative side would mean I would be going into an industry of uncertainty. Looking back at it now, the state of the industry when I was 10 is vastly different than it is at 21. I was told time and time again that being […]
Blog #1 Being in the New Media and Video Production field, I have often found myself stuck or lost in what I was doing. Other times, I see myself understanding material and making sense of the topic that is being discussed. As someone who aspires to be a sports broadcaster, I do really well with […]
Taking another dive into Deresiewicz’s definitely not soul crushing book, The Death of the Artist: How Creators are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech, we got to the section about doing it yourself. Which, consistent with the book’s other ideas, brings up yet another unglamorous part of being an artist […]
Can individual creators who make the content we love make their voices heard and shift our political landscape?
For over forty-five years Saturday Night Live has been an American cultural constant, a weekly parody of politics, entertainment, and society that continues to produce live shows on a hectic, weekly schedule. As Tina Fey described it, it’s schedule is “designed around cocaine;” but even since the drug’s departure the fast-paced, last-minute production style has remained. To create one of the longest-running and most beloved television programs possible, actors, writers, and crew members work around the clock, overnight, and up until the last possible second to make the sketch comedy fever dream a reality.
One thing that we have all been going through together since 2019 is the Pandemic. Everyone is still being affected by it. Worldwide. When it started, we saw a lot of fingers being pointed at the Asian communities, blamed for it. An Asian being beaten up, not allowed to get in, and sometimes even Killed. […]
As someone who has been interested in the entertainment and media industries for most of my life, and also being someone who was born and raised in the Northeast, there has always been a question that weighed on me when thinking about making that a career. Other than whether or not I could even get […]
How have streaming platforms capitalized on growing audiences and shifting trends? And just how big are these platforms and their libraries of content?
Film and Digital Media 