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Category Archives: research
April M3 at FNM
On Wednesday April 24 from 6:30-8:30 pm, M3 congregates at Film and New Media to mesh with our future collaborators. At M3’s February SWOT we assessed whether or not we had a sustainable film industry in Northwestern Lower Michigan, and … Continue reading
Posted in documentary, feature, job, M3 vision, meeting, outreach, research, storytelling, training
Tagged Career Tech Center, Cody Stowe, CTC, FNM, Scott Tompkins
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We SWOTed
Against the smear of a wintry Michigan highway, a woman in a sapphire 2007 Ford Focus peels back the pavement between Grand Rapids and Traverse City. Hurtling into the snow heavy northern horizon, she blurs the boney trees and crusted … Continue reading
Posted in documentary, feature, M3 vision, meeting, narrative, production, research, storytelling, volunteer
Tagged dashboard, economic development, medc, metrics, michigan film office, SWOT
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SWOT with Deb Havens TODAY
Michigan Movie Makers gather today to assess the Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities of/to our regional industry. This is the first step towards building a plan to thrive. Deb Havens of Film Friendly Michigan, (former board member and president of … Continue reading
Posted in documentary, feature, funding, infrastructure, job, M3 vision, meeting, narrative, outreach, research, volunteer
Tagged Deb Havens, Film Friendly Michigan, SWOT, wmfva
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Two gentle nudges
(1) Have you saved the date for our SWOT next week – Wednesday the 27? Spread the word to the movie tribe, let’s get ALL the kids in the sandbox. Vital, essential, imperative. (2) Registration for the Enhanced Editorial Workshop … Continue reading
Posted in documentary, feature, job, M3 vision, meeting, narrative, outreach, research, short, storytelling, training
Tagged Enhanced Editing, extended education, nmc, SWOT
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Cinematography and Citizenship, M3 goes to Lansing
My career in the Boy Scouts of America was, to paraphrase Hobbes, brutish and short. But ah… those merit badges! Here are two of the many merit badges that I did not earn when I was a Boy Scout – Cinematography … Continue reading
Posted in documentary, editorial, feature, infrastructure, job, M3 vision, meeting, outreach, research, storytelling, volunteer
Tagged Clover Roy, Darwin Booher, Deb Havens, Democrat, film, film incentive, film program, Governor Rick Snyder, Howard Walker, Lisa Lyons, movie, movie making, Ray Franz, Republican
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Registration for NMC Enhanced Editorial closing
The Northwestern Michigan College Extended Education version of the Enhanced Editorial workshop will reach fail safe in 4 days today. THAT MEANS that unless at least two more of you register in the next 96 4 hours then it’s the … Continue reading
Posted in documentary, editorial, narrative, research, storytelling, training
Tagged enhanced editorial, extended ed, extended education, nmc, workshop
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How can regional movie making thrive?
Inside Out Gallery, 229 Garland St, Traverse City, MI 49684 Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:30 – 8:30 PM Gather with the Michigan Movie Makers to evaluate our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) with Deb Havens, former Chair/President of The … Continue reading
Posted in documentary, editorial, feature, film festival, infrastructure, job, M3 vision, meeting, narrative, outreach, research, volunteer
Tagged Deb Havens, Film Friendly Michigan, SWOT
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M3 meets with Representative Ray Franz
Well, M3 as in Dan Kelly. I drove down to Onekama yesterday to introduce myself to Representative Franz, and open up a dialogue about the film industry in Michigan. His office Czarina, Jennifer Smeltzer reminded me that her daughter went … Continue reading
Posted in job, M3 vision, meeting, research
Tagged government, Jennifer Smeltzer, legislation, legislator, michigan, Representative Ray Franz, State
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How to run a Micro Movie Marathon
These are notes to myself about running a solid M33M. These are tight tolerance events, forgetting a crucial step could result in disgrace, bone loss and the ascendancy of the anti-christ. So… here’s my first pass at a step by … Continue reading
M3 and beyond
M3 just had our fifth M33M. This summer will mark our third anniversary. High time for a check up, perhaps as a precursor to a meeting of the M3 Core, Supreme Soviet, Founding Mothers, Star Chamber, aka those who bother … Continue reading