Ray Ellingsen, Founder of Moving Pictures Media Group, has been an active sponsor for Nancy Fulton Meetups over the years. His support has helped us provide more events for more filmmakers, and his appearances and the guests he's brought with him, have helped our members understand how to develop films with budgets over $1M. You'll enjoy this interview if you have film you're struggling to produce, or a script that you want producers to love.
In this episode of Hollywood Insider Help, we dive into the multi-award-winning book "Games People Play" by Eric Berne, a pivotal guide to understanding human interactions. Particularly relevant to the entertainment industry, this workshop explores the fundamental concepts of transactional analysis, shedding light on the "drama" often encountered in Hollywood. We review common "games" people play and offer techniques to dispel them, enhancing your professional and personal interactions. Additionally, discover how these games inspire brilliant books, movies, and films. Make-believe drama becomes even more captivating when rooted in the fundamental behaviors of human nature. Tune in for insightful discussions that bridge psychology and storytelling in the world of entertainment.
Welcome to the Hollywood Insider Help podcast! In this episode, we delve into the detrimental thought patterns that can hinder your success as a media creator in the entertainment industry. We'll explore how these negative habits can affect your creativity, collaboration, and career progression. Discover practical strategies to identify and change these patterns, ensuring you can consistently create on demand, effectively engage with other creators, and successfully find, perform, and promote your work. Tune in to learn how to break free from these limiting thoughts and propel your career forward.
When people come to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, they often encounter perplexing behaviors and responses. Many of these can be traced back to Hollywood's turbulent history and the monumental mistakes made by Studios, Directors, and Producers. These blunders have not only ended careers and destroyed studios but have also resulted in financial losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars and, tragically, even cost lives. In this eye-opening episode, we delve into some of the most significant disasters in Hollywood's history. By the end of this podcast, you'll gain a much clearer understanding of how to navigate the Hollywood landscape. You'll learn what seasoned Hollywood Insiders know about the pitfalls that can ruin careers and lives.
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Join us as we uncover the hidden truths behind Hollywood's biggest failures and equip yourself with the knowledge to thrive in the industry. Don't miss this essential episode for anyone serious about making it in Hollywood.
In today's workshop, we're going to be talking about cultivating a robust attitude so you can thrive in the media business. And specifically, I'm going to review some practical advice on surviving and thriving in what is an incredibly competitive industry.
I think most people that work in the entertainment industry, at one point or another, find themselves thinking, Oh, my God. Why is this so difficult? Why is this so hard? Shouldn't it all be easier? What am I doing wrong? I must be doing something wrong because I've never been so unhappy. I thought this was going to make me happy. I thought when I had the freedom and the time to work as a writer or a screenwriter, as a producer, as a performer, I thought that I would just fall in love. I've wanted to do this my whole life and it's just turning into a miserable experience.
People are surprised by how difficult it is to work in the entertainment industry is because nobody pulls you aside early on and explains some of the more difficult aspects of working in the industry or working as a media creative.
As creatives, we invest time, effort, ideas, intellectual property, and our reputation in the projects we do. A project that goes well becomes a stepping stone to other great projects. Failed projects, or projects we fail on, are thus damaging from many perspectives.
Our work is more or less collaborative, based on our desire or willingness to collaborate. Working with the "right" collaborators lets us do our best work. The wrong collaborators disable, distract, and disaffect us. They take us out of the zone in which we are most effective.
In order to find the right collaborators, we need to understand what kind of creatives we are, what we do best, what we need to do our best work, and where our weaknesses are. We also need to understand how to work with (and sometimes side-step) those collaborators with whom we are not perfectly matched.
Learn what kind of creator your and why that matters so much to your work as a producer, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, or author making media for money.
Writers, actors, filmmakers, artists, designers, and other creatives are taught young that choosing to be a creative professional is risky business. It doesn't have to be.
In this workshop you'll learn:
This is a very practical, brass-tacks, rational workshop that helps you understand, intuitively, what you need to so so you can do it. Furthermore, you'll understand why what you've been doing previously hasn't been working wonderfully well even though you've got a lot of skill, talent, and commitment.
If you have any questions about this workshop, please email me at nancy@nancyfultonmeetups.com. You can find in-depth live and online how-to workshops at www.nancyfultonmeetups.com and NFM24.com.