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Wonder what everyone's doing online ...? About 80% of America's online population - about 158 million web users - were getting all bleary-eyed watching videos in July, according to data from comScore Video Metrix. In that one month, Americans watched 21.4 billion videos online, an average of 135 videos for ever viewer. Average online videos ran for 3.7 minutes, but the average online viewer watched 8.3 hours of video during July. Google sites racked up a record 8.9 billion videos viewed (that's 42% of all videos viewed online) with YouTube accounting for more than 99% of those viewings. Viacom Digital was a distant second with 812 million videos viewed, followed by Microsoft sites with 631 million. The average Hulu viewer watched 12 videos, totaling 1 hour and 13 minutes of videos per viewer. Maybe it's time to rethink "traditional" distribution?
-- Norman C. Berns
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| Need classes that meet your budget and schedule...? Email norman@reelgrok.com |
| * BUDGETING & SCHEDULING The Heart of Filmmaking – $125 |
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Detailed three-hour overview of the twin pillars of production - scheduling & budgeting. This intensive course analyzes the process, technique and complex relationship between a film's schedule & its budget. The complete class - including all support materials - is available on CD for $100. Enter the discount code CD-ORDER on checkout. |
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Thursday, March 18, 2010, 11AM PT (2PM ET)
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 11AM PT (2PM ET)
Friday, December 31, 2010, CD PURCHASE ONLY
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| * BUSINESS PLANS Making them Effective & Keeping them Legal – $125 |
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The real substance of a business plan and how it gets there. This is a step by step guide to planning and writing an effective business and marketing plan, then coupling it with a legal Private Placement Memorandum for fund raising. This course will explain the task ahead and show the work that has to be done to get your film funded. Course includes a complete PDF of the class, business plan Table of Contents and 13MB of support materials. |
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Saturday, March 20, 2010, 11AM PT (2PM ET)
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 11AM PT (2PM ET)
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| * PITCH TO WIN A Winners Guide to the Five-Minute Pitch – $75 |
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You have FIVE MINUTES to present your idea, your needs, your plan. You've got the BIG meeting. Here's how to condense your script, your business plan, your marketing plan and your profit goals down to the most important five minutes of your life. And have enough time left over for small talk. Yes, you can do it - if you know how. One Hour. |
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 11AM PT (2PM ET)
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| BUDGETING - BASIC INTRODUCTION – $75 | |
This is a course for beginners. It covers WHY budgets are essential, WHAT a budget does for filmmakers and how it HELPS your production. The class outlines the structure of a basic budget and shows how to get started. Basic Budgeting is the course to take before starting your first budget. Course includes complete PDF. Classes available by request only. Two hours |
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| BUDGETING with EP BUDGETING Novice to Intermediate – $100 |
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The standard Hollywood studio budgeting program. (Based on Movie Magic, but entirely new.) Learn to work with its basic structure; learn to take control of its most advanced features; learn how to deliver "smarter" budgets. Two hours. |
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| BUDGETING with EP BUDGETING Intermediate to Advanced – $100 |
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| The standard Hollywood studio budgeting program. (Based on Movie Magic, but entirely new.) Learn to work with its basic structure; learn to take control of its most advanced features; learn how to deliver "smarter" budgets. Two hours. | |
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| BUDGETING with MOVIE MAGIC (to v5.7) – $100 | |
The film industry’s standard budgeting program, from basics to advanced use. Still in wide use by filmmakers and Hollywood studios, v5.7 is the last Movie Magic update. This material was originally developed and delivered at Media Services in New York. Course includes complete PDF manual. Two hours. |
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| BUDGETING with SHOWBIZ BUDGETING – $100 | |
Getting the most out of the film industry's most adaptable budgeting program. Change the look and feel instantly, from budgeting commercials to features to TV episodics. All with full implementation of actualization, vendor lists and petty cash tracking. Two hours. Classes available on request only. |
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| BUDGETING Picking Programs & Making Budgets – $125 |
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| Hands-on and How-to, from picking the right program for the job to breaking down the script to the creation of a budget. Where do the costs come from? What's the Chart of Accounts? What are Fringes and Globals and Groups? This seminar provides extensive details about the major budgeting programs and every line in a budget. Plus techniques to make smarter budgets for better productions. Three Hours | |
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| CASH FLOW ANALYSIS FOR PRODUCTION – $50 | |
| The basic information to support the numbers in a business plan. How much money do you REALLY need? And when do you need it? The process is extremely simple, but requires a solid understanding of both production scheduling and budgeting. The course will be fast-paced. One hour. | |
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| FILM PRODUCTION MASTERS CLASS – $129 | |
If your film is stuck without a production in sight, or your finished film is still sitting without distribution, you need to spend the day in "The Production Masters Class." This is a major, hands-on, eight-hour seminar filled with key information that can get your script into production and your film sold. |
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| RIGHTING ROTTEN RÉSUMÉS – $50 | |
Resumes can help you get work. Or make sure you lose every job. The way resumes are written, even the way they're delivered can make all the difference. Learn what producers look for. And what they hate to find. One hour. |
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| SCRIPT BREAKDOWN & SCHEDULING – $100 | |
| The process of "breaking down" the script - isolating the elements like props, sets, action, even the time of day. Elements are separated by scene, each entered into a separate page. Classes discuss techniques for manual scheduling and using a major scheduling program. Seven dangers to avoid. Seven rules to better schedules. Complex, intensive, hands-on. Two+ hours. | |
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| WRITING EFFECTIVE EMAILS – $50 | |
Emails - good, bad, ugly, brilliant. Learn which kind you're sending. And how they make you look. Take control of your communications with steps that make you look better, sound smarter and get the results you want. One hour. Classes available on request only. |
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