Tag Archives: jon reiss

Making things easier for THEM, not you…

  I’ve been listening to a ton of music lately. Music when I wake up. Music as I work. Music when I work out. Music as I think. Music when I strategize. Music as I write. Music when I contemplate. … Continue reading

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BOLLYWOOD: Going out of my genre comfort zone…

  I’ll be the first to admit there are elements of the PMD’s job which tend to get a bit repetitive or routine. The sorts of things we’re paid to do, the kinds of tasks that are part and parcel … Continue reading

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My THREE WORDS for 2013: ISOLATE, DISENGAGE, and COCOON

It’s that happy time of year again, where we reassess what happened over the course of the past one and plan for the coming twelve months… I’ve been doing a ton of deep thinking about my “three words” for calendar … Continue reading

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Know your worst-case scenarios…in advance…

Mediocrity. Yep. That’s the most indies playing in this sandbox can hope for. Joe Average. Also ran-dom. Along with the hoi-polloi. Underperforming, lackluster, subpar, poorly-conceived, possibly-maybe wishful thinking types of pictures that don’t take on much traction beyond their 4Tb … Continue reading

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PMD RANT | Something all indie film websites NEED to have…

Been scraping a ton of indie film websites in the past two days and I’m starting to note a few irksome commonalities which aren’t washing for me. It’s no secret — GONG! — that social media is like road infrastructure … Continue reading

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SLAUGHTER NICK FOR PRESIDENT | More on Audience Engagement

Let’s talk a little bit more about Liza Vespi, Marc Vespi, and Rob Stewart‘s Slaughter Nick for President audience engagement strategy and how the film might brand itself across a wider spectrum of the viewing public. Given that the film … Continue reading

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THE NEW AUDIENCE EQUATION

Been seriously enjoying dGenerate Films‘s CEO and longtime indie producer Karin Chien‘s latest piece in the Fall 2012 edition of Filmmaker Magazine on audience. As is common for any Filmmaker article, discussions by indie producers always tend towards the “how” … Continue reading

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IMPROV FILM PROJECT, by Xavier Agudo | Lucky Day 7 | Coming Full-Circle…Back to Stettiner Strasse

What a trip…seven days around the Berlin galaxy on the good ship U-Bahn, only to end up back where we began: Stettiner Strasse and the wild and woolly Wedding ghetto which we know oh so well. I can hear the … Continue reading

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Xavier Agudo’s IMPROV FILM PROJECT | DAY 1 of the shoot…

This is what we looked like after a full day and afternoon of shooting Xavier Agudo’s Improv Film Project. Yes, this was “on location,” as they say. Not too worse for the wear and not a bad little shoot within … Continue reading

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INNER DISTRICT AUDIO COMMENTARIES | Webisode 1/Part III: “SCAPEGOAT”

The audio commentaries have arrived…again! Juliane and I are pleased to announce we’ve recorded and uploaded a bundle of EVEN MORE audio commentaries – from a variety of perspectives: actor’s, director’s, producers’, and screenwriter’s – for our fans. This time from Webisode 1/Part III. For indies keen on learning how all of … Continue reading

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