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Film Office director: Industry ‘booming’ in Michigan
Michigan Film Office Director Carrie Jones believes it’s an “incredibly exciting time for Michigan.” Jones took over the position earlier this summer and hopes to “carry on the trajectory” her predecessor, Janet Lockwood, set for Michigan’s film industry. In 2007, when the state had what Jones calls a “baby incentive,” three films shot in Michigan, spending $2 million. The current incentives passed in April 2008, and that year 35 film productions spent $135 million. Productions spent $223 million in 2009, and the film...
read moreMotown Becomes Movietown
Hollywood has a new favorite location. The Motor City is luring films and TV shows with tax breaks and red-carpet treatment. Was that Demi and Ashton at the Tigers game? photo illustration by Mick Coulas; Brian Widdis for The Wall Street Journal Across the street from a landscape of vacant houses and overgrown front yards, homicide detectives gather to investigate a murder. They analyze clues and debate how best to interrogate the key witnesses. Then, the director yells “Cut!” and everyone heads to a catered lunch of ...
read moreSearch Engine Optimization 101
Google is a search engine. “Search is the connectivity that links everyone and everything on the Internet” (Winfiled, 2008). Technically, a search engine is a database of web pages (called an index) and the search engine is a method for finding Web pages and indexing them within the database (Melage, 2007, p. 69). Additionally, spiders are software that follow hyperlinks to find new web pages to index to keep web pages up to date (Melage, 2007, p. 69). Half of all purchases in the business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce category are...
read moreEditing Advanced Workshop 2 Class
Video Editing Advanced Workshop with Adobe Premiere Pro & Adobe Encore PREREQUISITE : Editing Basic Workshop 1 Schedule: This class meets one time for 3 hours. All Class Dates & Times Are listed on Our Calendar here. Click the “ADD TO CART” Button to see a Current Scheduled list of Workshops Available *Price Show is for advanced purchases only (7 days prior to class beginning). Seating is very limited, classes are very small (4-10 students max). All students must register for workshops using the...
read moreEditing Basic Workshop 1 Class
Video Editing Basic Workshop 1 With Adobe Premiere Pro Schedule: This class meets one time for 3 hours. All Class Dates & Times Are listed on Our Calendar here. Click the “ADD TO CART” Button to see a Current Scheduled list of Workshops Available *Price Show is for advanced purchases only (7 days prior to class beginning). Seating is very limited, classes are very small (4-10 students max). All students must register for workshops using the “ADD TO CART” button located above for the class they are...
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