Entertainment Business

After nearly three decades in the Canadian music business, Bob D'Eith has learned a lot about how independent artists have succeeded or failed. This book delves into the basic tools that every independent artist should have in today's complicated and ever-changing music industry. More than ever before, artists are being expected to develop themselves. That means understanding many parts of the business both traditional and cutting edge. A Career in Music: The Other 12 Step Program examines where the money is for Canadian artists and how to get it.

The Feel Good Song Book features four songs with illustrations about different ways you can feel better in these difficult times. These songs feature things to think about and do to bring you more happiness and satisfaction in everyday life.

10 Tips for Promoting a Local Screening of Your Film describes some ways to promote a local screening. It suggests different promotional strategies for putting on your own event or helping an organization promote your screening. Then, the audiobook focuses on how to use Eventbrite and Meetup to sign-up attendees and receive advance payments. The audiobook is formatted like a journal, so listeners can write down their ideas for what to do after reading each tip.

Well now you have that friend and he’s sick of artists like you getting screwed over.It’s time to put you in the driver’s seat. You are part of a generation who are more aware of inauthenticity and manipulation than ever before. You’re less interested in blindly following and more interested in being shown not only how to do something but in understanding why it’s important that it gets done.

Are you an indie author struggling to find that elusive bond with a professional cover artist? An illustrator trying to break onto the professional scene? A publisher juggling both at the same time? Or even a group of authors working on a special project? Then this is the one, fact-filled book that you will want to carry as you embark on your own journey towards either the creation of or contracting for a fabulous book cover that will ensure the success of your book publishing endeavor. Come for the invaluable information. Stay for the fun.

10 Tips for Making a Final to Do List for Distributing Your Film summarizes the key tasks to do to successfully distribute your film. It features key marketing and promotion tasks, such as creating a poster, trailer, and press materials, setting up a website or page on your website for the film, making arrangements with a website, and more. The book is part of a series of short books, in which each book features tips and techniques for becoming more successful in the film industry.

En el año 2000, Marc Randolph y Reed Hastings pasaban por uno de sus peores momentos personales. La empresa en la que habían invertido todos sus ahorros, esfuerzos y dos años de trabajo estaba a punto de naufragar. Su idea de crear una empresa de alquiler de DVD por correo sin multas por retornos tardíos, a pesar de su éxito moderado, se demostraba incapaz de dar beneficios. Tomaron entonces medidas desesperadas. Viajaron a Dallas para ofrecérsela a su mayor competidor, Blockbuster, por 50 millones de dólares. La respuesta fue tajante: "Largaos."

I programmi audio di Area51 sono un nuovo modo per avanzare nella tua crescita personale e mettere subito in pratica ciò che ascolti. Sono dei veri e propri seminari live che puoi ascoltare quando desideri, per restare sempre in connessione con i contenuti del programma e riconnetterti a essi in qualunque momento tu voglia.

Have you ever been stuck? Creative freedom could be simple...It really is possible to become unstoppable. You can conquer the blank page. You can let your talents shine. You can (really) make money with your gifts. Our culture paints creative people as flaky and confused. Don’t listen to their lies. You are more than a character.

10 Keys for What You Need to Submit for a Distribution Deal describes the many different deliverables required to distribute your film. These include various film formats, insurance forms, releases from actors, crew members, and others involved in the film, marketing and promotional materials, and more. The particular items required will be included in each distributor’s contract, but it’s important to know in advance the types of materials you will have to supply, so you can be prepared for what is expected when you land a deal.

10 Keys to Making a Low-Cost Documentary Feature describes a low-cost approach for producing a feature-length documentary with a budget under $50,000. It features an approach I have used that combines interviews with interviewees and experts along with B-roll shots of activities to use with voice-overs from the interviews. It also suggests ways to find interviewees, obtain funding for the film, and more.The book is formatted like a journal, so readers can write down their ideas for what to do after reading each tip.

10 Legal Basics for Producing a Feature Film or Documentary describes the major legal documentaries you need to produce a feature-length film or documentary. It covers the basics of getting a fictitious name, filing for a copyright, obtaining E&O and other types of insurance, creating release forms for actors, interviewees, crew members, and other film participants, and much more.

Quer ser ator, mas não sabe se leva jeito? Como decorar suas falas no roteiro? Deu branco no meio da peça, e agora? Como seguir uma carreira na arte? Todo artista, não importa o tamanho da fama e do sucesso, já se viu em apuros - de uma forma ou de outra. Nessas horas, não há muito para onde correr. Quem não pode contar com uma voz experiente para ajudar nessas horas de crise, pode amargar momentos de crise artística e profissional.

After starting two iconic music venues and surviving the dot-com bust, Michael Dorf offers gripping stories and hard-earned business lessons with a contrarian twist. As technology becomes more deeply woven into our lives, the key to success can be found in satisfying people’s yearning for live human interaction.

Few people have had such a massive impact on society, culture, and the Western world as Walt Disney. Over the course of his life, he built a vast entertainment empire that has become a cultural icon and persists long after the man himself left it behind. The parks, movies, and characters he envisaged have left a profound mark on our culture and the childhoods of millions. Walt Disney: Biography of an American Entrepreneur examines his life, his legacy, and the sea of successful movies that came in his wake. Buy now to hear about Walt Disney’s life like never before.

Digitally Independent is a step-by-step guide to success for independent music artists. It discusses in detail about how independent artists can start from the beginning. In order to start their realization of being their own business. The book is written by Melissa B. an independent singer/songwriter and network engineer, who has successfully structured a independent label. In addition to her music career, Melissa B. is extremely passionate about supporting young women interested in engineering and technology.

挫折しても、大丈夫。つきまとう不安が自分を強くする。―― 元宝塚トップスター柚希礼音。幼いころ内気だった彼女が、6年間もトップを務めるまでになった過程とは。宝塚での経験を織り交ぜながら、次の扉を開くための「心の整え方」「コミュニケーションする力」「生き方」を伝えます。 宝塚退団後初の著書「夢をかなえるために、私がやってきた５つのこと」(KADOKAWA)をダイジェストにして、オーディオブック化しました。

このスティーブ・ジョブズを語る千夜一夜というオーディオブック、今回のiTunes Store特別編は、2010年11月11日に日本でようやく始まった映画のレンタルと販売について語ったものです。日本のiTunes Storeでの映画の提供に関しては、これまで何度も噂がありましたが、今日まで実現することはありませんでした。この辺りの事情についても深い分析が語られています。そして映画の提供に合わせて新世代のAppleTVも、日本での販売が開始されました。元MACLIFE編集長の高木利弘氏とテクノロジーライターの大谷和利氏のお二人が、この映画の提供開始の意味や今後の展開について深く掘り下げて語ります。(C) Pamlink Corp.

“Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” is Bill Sullivan’s motto, which will come as no surprise to anyone who opens Lemon Jail. A raucous tour diary of rock ’n’ roll in the 1980s, Sullivan’s book puts us in the van with the Replacements in the early years. Barreling down the highway to the next show through quiet nights and hightailing it out of scandalized college towns, Sullivan - the young and reckless roadie - is in the middle of the joy and chaos, trying to get the band on stage and the crowd off it and knowing when to jump in and cover Alice Cooper.

Es gibt solche Menschen, die scheinen jeden um den Finger wickeln zu können.... Doch wie stellen sie das an? Wir verraten Ihnen die geheimen Strategien, mit denen es ihnen JEDER nachmachen kann!