Re: JoeD, you\'re my hero!
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>So why are you invited to trade shows and the like which you've mentioned from time to time<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I was invited to private tours at Fox, DTS and other industry sites in California because I was one of the 60 or so Home Theater Forum members who attended the 2000 National Meeting in Los Angeles. The invitation was to the group, not to individual members. (Since the studios and other facilities could only handle about 60 people at a time, rank and file members like me were selected to go by a kind of lottery system. The folks who run the forum were there
ex officio.)
Some of the events we attended were open to the general public, including the annual Studio Day where DVD hardware and software companies come to promote their wares for the upcoming year. Of course you a) have to know about it and b) have to be in Los Angeles to attend it. (Studio Day is sponsored by and held at Dave's Video in Studio City.)
I also know a few folks who
do work in the industry and from whom I sometimes get information. I know others who work in industries or for firms closely associated with the entertainment business (law firms, accounting firms, the advertising business) and I learn things from them, as well.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>and how do you know a fair amount about the technical aspects of production?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I read
The Making of Star Trek back in 1967 or '68 and became interested in the nuts and bolts of how TV shows get made and end up in our homes. So it is a subject I've read about a lot, and one that I ask people about when I get the chance. I once had a long one-on-one conversation on the subject with Gene Rodenberry in the staff suite at a
Star Trek convention. (While everyone else was in the next room talking to William Shatner.
)
One of the reasons that JMS started his on-line dialogue with fans was to explain how a show like
B5 is created, sold and produced, and I've paid a lot of attention to his posts - always allowing for the fact that he only represents one point of view, and that he himself doesn't know a great deal about parts of the business that he doesn't normally deal with.
Regards,
Joe
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Joseph DeMartino
Sigh Corps
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