Fish(er) Tales

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! These posts will give you a better idea about what this site is about. Start here, then go here, and here, and then here.So, I’m working on Scott’s Dead — a film written and directed by Matthew Irvine made this summer (2009) in Chicago as part of the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital...

Let’s face it, there are some aspects of running a successful artistic career that you simply can’t control. Various issues seem to overwhelm and interfere with your progress. Rather than sit around and worry about these challenges, take a different tactic. Despite the seemingly uncontrollable nature of things, you can control one aspect: YOUR reaction. Instead of wallowing in self-pity...

Here’s a tip from the archives that with a slight revision remains relevant today. Besides getting more clients (always a good idea!), you can put more money in your pocket with your existing clients, too. You need to get your supporters to spend a little more when they do buy and/or convince them to buy a little more often. For example, let’s say you can sell 100 people a $10 item twice...

Here’s one of my favorite quotes: “When people say to me ‘How do you do so many things?,’ I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel, ‘How do you do so little?’ It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They treat life as if it goes on forever.”...

Dear Editor(s): I am looking forward to handling the post-production sound for your project. I’ll be cleaning up dialogue, adding sound effects, and generally getting the soundtrack to sound as good as the picture edit looks. Could you do me a favor? Dump that room tone that goes with EACH and EVERY scene on an open audio track at the bottom of the editing timeline and mute it. You will save...