Tag Archive for 'industries'

Film in New Jersey

New York Times: Getting the Big Picture; The Film Industry Started Here and Left. Now It’s Back, and the State Says the Sequel Is Huge. | By ANDREA KANNAPELL | Published: October 4, 1998


Alabama Film Office

Alabama Film Office | Alabama Film Office: Mission Statement


Colorado Production Resource Guide

The Colorado Production Resource Guide is a comprehensive portal of production resources available around the state of Colorado, produced and presented by the Colorado Film and Video Association:


links for 2008-04-26


Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive (MPTV)

  • Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive (MPTV)
  • Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive Blog

  • Trigger Street

    Trigger Street.

    From Trigger Street - About Us:


    links for 2008-04-22


    Bloglines Post

    location scouting resources and a del.icio.us social bookmarking primer

    By locationscout (me)


    NY Moves to Up Tax Incentives For Filming

    NY moves to up tax incentives for filming | WheresSpot | …via NY Times


    New Jersey Film Office Needs Our Help

    Save Filmmaking in New Jersey

    “Governor Corzine has eliminated funding for the New Jersey State Film Commission starting July 1st 2008.


    NYPG

    NYPG (New York Production Guide) On-Line Resource


    Location Managers Guild of America

    Location Managers Guild of America | Who We Are

    “Location Managers and Scouts are vital members of the design team for film, television, commercials, music videos and print advertising.


    Shoot Online

    Shoot Online is a trade journal and one of the tv commercial production industry’s “bibles”. (…also Adweek and Advertising Age - also Wheresspot - Prisoners of Advertising)


    Lessons From the Music Industry?

    I present for your consideration:

    Seth Godin’s Blog | Music Lessons | …via PhotoMatt


    WGA Writers Strike 2007 - 2008

    Note: The author is a freelance film / photo location scout and location manager and is neither a member of AMPTP or WGA. Any of the opinions expressed are those of R. Richard Hobbs.


    Shoot Online Publicity Wire

    Shoot Online has recently announced its Publicity Wire Service.


    Lightbox-NY

    Mark McKennon and I recently had the opportunity to tour Lightbox-NY, a 10,000 sf rental studio / industrial location in the Bronx, on Barretto Street, in the Hunts Point area, in the building complex I have always known the Bronx Apparel Center.


    CT Film Commissioner Suspended

    This interesting newspaper editorial article came my way via my email inbox via The Hartford Courant and Google Alerts wherein the Courant calls on the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism to clarify its placing Film Commissioner Heidi Hamilton effective August 21st.


    Excellent Article About Filmmaking in New Jersey

    Entertainment Law In New Jersey: A Century Of Supporting The Motion Picture Industry


    Montclair State University Film Students Seeking Summer Internships

    Professor Tony Pemberton, from the Montclair State University Film School, Montclair, NJ recently contacted me requesting assistance placing his film students in intern positions during the coming summer months.


    Interviewed By WCBS-TV (NYC) Re: Orangetown, NY Filming Fees

    I was interviewed last week by New York, NY CBS affiliate WCBS-TV, for a video news article entitled Hollywood Being Priced Out of 1 Upscale Rockland County Town that ran on the Thursday, April 12th 11pm Newscast and in extended form the following morning on the Morning News regarding a situation in Orangetown Township, NY whereby the town has initiated a $500 per hour fine for film crews present before 7a.m. or after sunset.


    New York State Filming / TV Incentives Kick In: Commercials Up Next?

    Shoot Magazine (print edition) | or Seeking Deja Vu: N.Y. Looks To Fuel Spot Business (subscription required) | Commercial-making Incentives Hope To Mirror Success of N.Y. Feature Film / Television Program Tax Credits | By Robert Goldrich


    Performers, Unions and Advertising Industry Tentatively Agree

    Performers’ Unions and Advertising Industry Tentatively Agree on Two-Year Extension of Commercials Contracts
    “Joint Study to be Conducted Over Next Two Years


    NJ Offering Financial Incentives For Filmmakers

    From the New Jersey State Film Commission:

    New Jersey currently offers these financial incentives to filmmakers, and the US Government has an incentive program as well:


    New York Location Scouts to Lose Scouting Tag Priveleges

    MOFTB: Scouting Tag Program Discontinued


    Location Scouting

    GO FOR RESOURCES: Location Scouting | by Scott T.S. Trimble


    Association of Film Commissioners International

    Not everybody knows about the Association of Film Commissioners International …or even what a film commission (or film office) is. ;-)


    Creative Planet Websites

    The Creative Planet websites are the online version of all those niche trade magazines you always can never resist subscribing to (free for qualified subscribers!) and often wonder what you were thinking as six months of “Widgets Monthly” piles up unread; the upside of the online versions (if you can stay your trembling hand from subscribing by email) is you can stay up to speed on your own time on the latest technologies (yup, lot-o industrial/gear/tech press releases) online -and no trees died for your sins:


    Movie Maker Magazine Article

    Note: The following is a draft of “Securing A Great Location”, published in Moviemaker Magazine’s 2005 Beginner’s Guide To Making Movies


    RTR Locations

    Welcome to RTR Locations

    “Founded in 1982, Real to Reel is the largest, most complete location agency in the world representing private properties throughout the Los Angeles area to the entertainment industry.”