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Creating Spaces is Launched!
Welcome to CREATING SPACES, the new interactive blog on production and creativity co-written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, principals of Insights International, the award-winning multimedia company...
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20 Words
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, principals of Insights International How do you define anything in 20 words? Why should you try ? Because the open space we live in is filled with headlines,...
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Naming Your Project
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, principals of Insights International in Ithaca and New York City What's in a name? At some point during a production, you will need to name your program or...
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Making Something Out of Nothing
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde from Insights International Something out of nothing. Isn’t this what artists do? The writer confronts the blank page. The photographer uses a lens to...
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Professional Production
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, principals, Insights International What do you need to know in order to produce a program? In production, when working for a paying client, you don’t...
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Professional Production: 2 Audiences
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, principals, Insights International There are always 2 audiences: In producing professional video, there are always AT LEAST 2 audiences for a show. The...
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Trailers
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, principals, Insights International Why make a trailer? Is it because everybody expects us to have one? Is it because audiences truly enjoy the short...
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Production Workshop: Sound Part 1
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals, Insights International A picture, we have been told, is worth 1000 words. A moving picture is worth considerably more. But sound? What is...
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Censorship
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, principals, Insights International Censorship. It's everywhere. Sometimes overt, sometimes covert. Some of it is open, much of it is subtle. In...
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Production workshop: Sound 2
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals, Insights International Which comes first, the picture or the sound? For me, it is often a song or sound that catalyses a show. I love to...
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Production workshop Sound 3: Doing it All
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals, Insights International Is the sound you capture with your flipcam or your camera mic good enough? Rarely. Why? Because your ears are incredible...
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Production workshop Sound 4: The Sound of Silence
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals, Insights International Why should you bother to create a sound track from scratch and mix together audio tracks into a sound track, a...
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Can a Soundtrack save a Production?
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals, Insights International A field production story Back in the days before digital file recordings, back before camcorders, your field recording...
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A Question of Privacy
Post written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, principals, Insights International, Ithaca/New York City In 1988, we made a film about kids growing up poor in rural New York State. This period was before...
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Privacy and Responsibility
Blog written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals of Insights International (Ithaca and New York City) We have been talking about privacy, and the ethics of posting a film made long before...
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How to shoot without changing things
Blog posting written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals of Insights International (Ithaca and New York City) Is it ever possible to shoot without changing the behaviors of the people in front...
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Fair Game
Blog posting written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals, Insights International (Ithaca and New York City) This term, "fair game," is an expression many of you used recently when commenting...
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As American as Apple Pie
Blog posting written by Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, coprincipals of insights International (Ithaca and New York City) The story of Judith Griggs and Cooks Source magazine has become very big news for...
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