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StudioBinder.com – What is an Entertainment Lawyer
Read more: StudioBinder.com – What is an Entertainment Lawyerwww.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-an-entertainment-lawyer-definition/
Areas Entertainment Lawyers Can Help With
– Navigating contracts
– Protecting Intellectual Property (IP)
– Connecting clients to other industry professionals (lawyers, managers, agents) -
What if China no longer needs Hollywood?
Read more: What if China no longer needs Hollywood?www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/media/china-box-office-coronavirus/index.html
“In 2020, China overtook the United States to become the top movie market in the world. The country, perennially the second-largest movie market, brought in $3.1 billion at the box office in 2020, according to Comscore (SCOR) — nearly $1 billion more than the United States did last year.
“If China doesn’t need US movies, Hollywood studios will have to dramatically reduce their spending on big budget blockbusters,” Aynne Kokas, the author of “Hollywood Made in China,” told CNN Business. “The current budgets are unsustainable without access to the China market. That could fundamentally change the model of the US film industry.”
“Regardless of what happens with Covid, we have at a minimum entered a world where the Chinese and US box offices are equally important,”
So where do Hollywood and China go from here? That question, like so many in the film industry right now, has no easy answer. Yet whatever the future of the film industry is, it’s likely to be one where Hollywood and China remain the two major pillars holding up the global box office.
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Magic Lantern – a free software add-on to boost Canon’s features
Read more: Magic Lantern – a free software add-on to boost Canon’s featureshttps://builds.magiclantern.fm/
Supported cameras:
5D Mark II, 5D Mark III, 6D, 7D, 50D, 60D, 500D/T1i, 550D/T2i, 600D/T3i, 650D/T4i, 700D/T5i, 1100D/T3, EOS M.Example features:
- Zebras for under/over exposed areas.
- Focus peaking for quickly checking focus.
- Magic Zoom window to fine-tune focus.
- Cropmark overlays for 16×9 bars or any custom shape.
- Overlay a ghost image in live view.
- Spotmeter in live view.
- False color for precise exposure control.
- RGB histogram with RAW support.
- Waveform for perfect green screen lighting.
- Vectorscope for color tones.
- Kelvin and push-button white balance.
- Auto ETTR (Expose To The Right).
- Exposure Lock for manual mode.
- Manually override exposure settings in LiveView.
- Quickly switch between two exposure presets.
- Toggle exposure simulation on/off (Liveview).
- Dynamic range improvements (Dual ISO, other features being researched).
- Bracketing for exposure, flash, or depth-of-field.
- In-camera intervalometer.
- Custom bulb timer for extra-long exposures.
- Motion detection.
- Silent pictures without shutter actuation.
- Record voice tags for photos / videos.
- Analog / digital gain adjustments.
- Selectable input source.
- Toggle wind filter.
- Live audio monitoring through with headphones.
- Beep / test tones.
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Meritocracy and the Peter Principle … or why some employees rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach the levels of their respective incompetence
Read more: Meritocracy and the Peter Principle … or why some employees rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach the levels of their respective incompetencehttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/peter-principle.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails.
Applied to humans, the selection of a candidate for a position is based on their performance in their current role rather than on their abilities relevant to the intended role.
- The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of respective incompetence.
- According to the Peter Principle, every position in a given hierarchy will eventually be filled by employees who are incompetent to fulfill the job duties of their respective positions.
- A possible solution to the problem posed by the Peter Principle is for companies to provide adequate skill training for employees receiving a promotion, and to ensure the training is appropriate for the position to which they have been promoted.
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If we turned back the evolutionary clock, would a species similar to humans come to dominate the Earth again?
Read more: If we turned back the evolutionary clock, would a species similar to humans come to dominate the Earth again?www.bbc.com/future/story/20190709-would-humans-evolve-again-if-we-rewound-time
American palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould proposed : What would happen if the hands of time were turned back to an arbitrary point in our evolutionary history and we restarted the clock?
Gould reckoned that humanity’s evolution was so rare that we could replay the tape of life a million times and we wouldn’t see anything like Homo sapiens arise again. His reasoning was that chance events play a huge role in evolution.
Put simply, evolution is the product of random mutation.
Experimental evolutionary biologists do have the means to test some of Gould’s theories on a microscale with bacteria.
Many bacterial evolution studies have found, perhaps surprisingly, that evolution often follows very predictable paths over the short term, with the same traits and genetic solutions frequently cropping up. There are evolutionary forces that keep evolving organisms on the straight and narrow. Natural selection is the “guiding hand” of evolution, reigning in the chaos of random mutations and abetting beneficial mutations. This means many genetic changes will fade from existence over time, with only the best enduring. This can also lead to the same solutions of survival being realized in completely unrelated species.
What about the underlying physical laws (ie: gravity) – do they favour predictable evolution? At very large scales, it appears so.
This means that the broad “rules” for evolution would remain the same no matter how many times we replayed the tape. There would always be an evolutionary advantage for organisms that harvest solar power. There would always be opportunity for those that make use of the abundant gases in the atmosphere. And from these adaptations, we may predictably see the emergence of familiar ecosystems. But ultimately, randomness, which is built into many evolutionary processes, will remove our ability to “see into the future” with complete certainty.
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