Entertainment Industry Videos & Courses

Respected television journalist Mike Minehan highlights the ingredients of a dynamic and successful television interview, using well chosen excerpts that include examples of great technique, as well as, of the pitfalls that await the unwary interviewer. This program is full of role models and cautionary tales. One classic excerpt, in which Margaret Thatcher turns the tables on an ill-prepared journalist, is worth the price of admission all by itself!

The Tell Me How series is a necessary addition to any library, guidance center or school curriculum. It explores a large number of career opportunities and different occupations to students, featuring real people doing real jobs.

First presented as part of the Writers Guild Foundations prestigious Words into Pictures event, The Art of Screenwritingn series features Hollywoods top motion picture and television writers, discussing specific aspects of the art of writing for screen & the different approaches to their craft.

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

How to Make It In Film consists of a series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry.

This video series is designed for those who want to be in the field of TV reporting and features interviews from first time reporters, discussing what the job entails and what to expect at your first station.

Valuable For Students Ready to Enter TV Broadcasting. This series takes you beyond the text book, beyond the classroom and directly Behind the Scenes of TV news, revealing not just the triumphs of news reporting but the failures and problems too.

Valuable For Students Ready to Enter TV Broadcasting. This series takes you beyond the text book, beyond the classroom and directly Behind the Scenes of TV news, revealing not just the triumphs of news reporting but the failures and problems too.

Sports broadcasting revealed with KUSIs Sports Director Paul Rudy. The TV newscast can be nothing but crime, fires and robberies until we get to the fun and opinionated portion of the news - Sports.

Meet the Bosses - Bill Lord, WJLA Washington DC, Steve Cohen, News Director KUSI San Diego, Christine Miceli Exec Producer-KTLA Los Angeles, John Coleman Weatherman KUSI San Diego (55 years in business- created the Weather Channel) Andrew Wyatt GM, KWST Yuma, AZ. Shannon Maze ND KWST Yuma, AZ and David Plummer VanderPloeg News Operations Manager, KUSI San Diego. These are the veterans, the bosses, the suits.

The all important contract with famed broadcast attorney Bob Teaf and Small Market News Director Shannon Maze KWST Yuma, AZ. After years of education, internships and sending out hundreds of demo tapes, you get your first job offer.

Stan Chambers - KTLA - 61 year news reporter veteran. Believe it or not there was a time when TV News had no established formats, no set rules on how to cover a story, no tried and true formulas.

Follow two stories from assignment to air showing the contrast between the rookie and the veteran - First year reporter Robert Hughes - KWST, Yuma, AZ - and KGTV San Diegos Sal Rivera, a 20 year veteran.

Start with The Command Course Basic - over 25 hours of instruction that teach Filmmaking from writing to post & all the gear use that enables students to produce a film or video successfully.

In this training series, nine of the worlds finest cinematographers share the wealth of their experience in a workshop setting as they guide you through a series of professional lighting problems both in studio and on location.

Valuable for students aspiring to enter the world of Filmmaking. Young people everywhere are interested in "breaking in" to film production.

In this series, Holshevnikoff shares his expertise through dozens of "before & after" demonstrations & lighting placement diagrams. The four DVD set includes: Lighting Faces, Lighting Interviews, Color Correction & Filtration and Lighting Backgrounds.

Subjects Covered Include: Theater Sound, System Design, Readable Materials and Farwell

Violence & Television with George Gerbner: George Gerbner, communication scholar, theorist, teacher, poet, and the founder of cultivation theory, discusses his work which influenced four decades of research on violence and television.

An in-depth docudrama exploring the Westmores Legendary Legacy. In the history of the modern American cinema, there are but few legacies of makeup artists.

Women and Media by Dr. Cindy Lont is a fast moving program with visuals of past and present media and interviews with Dr. Maurine Beasley, Sheila Gibbons and Junior Bridge, all foundational scholars in the field of women and media.