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The Industry: Trends, Markets, Segments, Potentials and Future


What is Post Production?

"Post Production" is a common term bandied about in the movie and television industries. What exactly does it mean? What are the specialties in post? How big is post production? And the most puzzling question of all: is “post production” hyphenated or not?


Promising Trends in the Industry

Mike Flanagan casts a keen eye toward the horizon and writes about evolving trends in the Industry – trends that make this period of digital evolution a good time to enter the playing field.


Evolving New Markets Create Opportunities

Unless you were born yesterday or the day before, so to speak, you’ve already witnessed remarkable technological advancements in the world. If you arrived a couple of decades ago, it's quite likely that you are looking at career opportunities in the fast-evolving field of digital media -- specifically the entertainment media of this 21st Century.


Opportunities in New Methods

But wait. New developments are developing. Mike Flanagan writes about some new methods used the post-production and distribution future, some of which are happening right now.


Industry Market Segments

All in all, California's entertainment industry employs more than 300,000 workers, divided somewhat unevenly into market segments. Mike Flanagan sorts the array of segments and puts them into job-seeking perspective.


Specific Film & TV Segments

As part of his continuing series of articles devoted to the universe of entertainment production jobs, Video Symphony's president Mike Flanagan delineates segments of the film & TV that may provide job opportunities for digital editors and artists.


The Editing Market

As long as humans are communicating, editors will play a vital role and continue to have employment opportunities. Editing is the literacy of the digital media era. An Editor is a communicator, a storyteller. As long as humans are communicating, editors will play a vital role and continue to have employment opportunities.


Overview of the Film/Video Editor's work

Today's digital editors tend to be skilled craftspeople and creative artists as well, able to experiment freely on their talented systems. They are the editor-craftspeople of this new age, as Mike Flanagan emphasizes in this brief overview.


Tasks & Activities of an Editor - A List

A detailed list of an editor’s tasks and activities provides an overview of life in the editor’s chair.


The Future Of Digital Media And Job Opportunities

As a continuation of his previous article “Evolving Trends,” Mike Flanagan identifies more intriguing changes and developments that will shape the future of the industry and jobs in it.


Hyperevolution

A tongue-in-cheek look at the growing demand for video content on the World Wide Web. Somebody has to edit all that video and sound...


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Did You Know?

French photographers Auguste and Louis Lumiere invented the first film projector in 1895. Auguste predicted that it had no commercial value whatsoever.
 
     



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