“Maybe they don’t find mountains or beaches in Shreveport, but they do find locations doubling for places as diverse as Kodiak, Alaska, or Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or ranging from New York and Paris to the Amazon or the biblical city of Sodom,” says Gregory Kallenberg, founder and executive director of the Louisiana Film Prize, a local film contest that each year awards cash to makers of short films.
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This is a great tool for people to use - and it is huge! To me, this seems like a really great opportunity for people who create really in depth YouTube videos. For example, CGP Grey, who puts about a month worth of effort into his videos for the purpose of top notch animation and really solid research. The problem with this place, from what I can tell, is that there's so many people that could be sharing it. While it's large and there is most likely plenty of space, I wonder if the company limits how many projects they'll take on at any given time to ensure that everyone who wants to use the facility can really use it the way they'd need to if they came in with a huge project. I mentioned this to someone who knows a lot about YouTube content creators, and he was saying that this is a huge problem in the YouTube community, that all of the people who just started dinky YouTube channels and are now super famous and want to make their shows better, are all flocking to LA because that's where the equipment and people they need are; but maybe they shouldn't have to.
I always found the concept of these production studios as interesting. They provide everything you need to shoot a film.
With Video Game technology evolving further and further, I wonder how long it will be before video game production studios and film production studios become the same thing. When will the place that Pixar renders and the place that Microsoft Studio renders be the same place? That will happen soon.
I’m curious to know when video game production companies and film production companies become the same group of companies. I predict that will happen soon too.
I don’t think that video games will be relying on theatre anytime soon, but I do see theatre starting to use video game technology, even now. Platforms like Unity are making video game technology a tool in theatrical design.
I suppose it wont be long until large theatre companies start to hire out these large media production companies, or even have a video game production studio of their own.
I would have never guessed that this many facilities this large existed in places like Shreveport, and at one point I lived 30 minutes away from downtown. I wonder if there is a market for content creators on a smaller scale than the ones described in the article across the country for independent filmmakers and for youtube video creators. I do not think that all projects need facilities with the much at their disposal, and the problem with a company this big is that they will charge more. The smaller companies might make a market for themselves because they could charge less and still make more because their expenses would be lower. That being said, I think that the large companies have the challenge of managing the number and size of projects that they take on over time to prevent an over-dedication of resources. On top of that, I wonder if they have to vet the projects to make sure that they are not over-dedicating specific resources.
Coming from the greater Nashville Tennessee area I started hearing about Louisiana TV production work back around 2009. The middle Tennessee theatre arts community is a very tight knit group of people (if you thought the national theatre community was small, go to Tennessee, it’s like Cheers- Everybody knows your name). Sadly, the Nashville theatre scene doesn’t have tons of money flowing through it, but it does have hoards of talented artists working in the area. I had never really understood how some of the amazing painters and sculptors I worked with where still putzing around in Tennessee when there skill set could allow them to go anywhere they wanted. Then one of my friends, Jon, was telling me about how he goes down to these production studios in Louisiana and works on films for a few months. Over the course of few months working on one of the film sets he would make enough money to live on in Nashville and not have to work at all. In reality, he was bringing his talents back to Nashville and essentially volunteering for odd end jobs at local theatres. Jon would learn really cool tricks on the film sets and then bring them back and share them with the local Tennessee folks he was working on projects with. So yeah, Louisiana has a vibrant and lucrative production business that is filtering into pockets as far north as Tennessee.
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