Partner & Creative Director
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1) Keep true to what it is you want to do, and do it better than everyone else. A lot of directors try to be everything for everybody to get more work. These always seem to be the directors that work less than others.
2) Build relationships with everyone in all aspects of our industry. A great producer is one with deep contacts that can help get any project done in any situation and location. Also a great understanding of the technical side of things is a big help. Knowing more than just what software and hardware that is used can be a huge help in managing artists on projects, bidding, and being realistic about deadlines.
3) The market is pretty ruthless and unpredictable right now, and I think some of the most valuable lessons learned as of late involve bidding and pitching for a project.
You really have to be able to read a bidding situation, and know if you are just a check bid for a project meant to go internal, going into a pitch with a studio already as the recco, or just an agency looking for numbers to bring someplace else. The lesson learned, ask tons of questions and be honest and upfront when approaching a bid or pitch.
4) Our recent Rebrand of the Washington Post stands out, as we built a pretty sophisticated toolkit that required some serious scripting and building a custom After Effects to Premiere pipeline.
https://vsnyc.tv/projects/content-re-brand/
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More