Expose, Encourage & Empower: Inspiring The Next Generation To A Career In Live Production

ProSoundWeb: There’s an expression: “If I can’t see it, I can’t be it.” If you have no idea that something exists, you can’t engage with it. That was certainly my experience when I went to my first gig at age 12 – up until then I loved music and was exploring different bands, but I had no idea of what went on behind the album cover, no idea of the army of people who make live shows happen.

Top Church Production Stories of 2025 for Worship and Tech Teams

Church Production Magazine: In 2025, Church Production focused on covering the issues and challenges church production teams face every week. The stories that drew the most attention were those that offered clear guidance, practical perspective, and insight into how technical decisions support worship and ministry.

Catherine Corcoran Launches Production Company FareStream

www.indiewire.com: When it comes to building a better Hollywood, Catherine Corcoran is in it for the long haul. On Monday, the “If It Bleeds” and “Terrifier” actress launched FareStream Pictures — a new film and TV production company with plans to champion “bold, emotionally charged storytelling” through women and underrepresented voices

Stop Motion Secrets From the Creator of 'The Tiny Chef Show'

No Film School: I have been working as a Director of Photography for over 10 years in live-action and stop motion. Stop motion is a special niche, and there is not a lot of information on how much detail, time, and work go into it. Even a tiny change can take you out of the story!

RockForce Acquires QSR Productions, Expanding U.S. Footprint

www.billboard.com: RockForce, the live event services company behind mega-productions like Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival, is expanding its national reach through the acquisition of QSR Productions, an Oklahoma-based provider of stagehands, riggers, loaders, camera operators and spotlight operators.

24 Hour Plays Are Coming Back to Broadway

AMERICAN THEATRE: The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway are an intensive theatrical endeavor in which artists write, direct, and perform six original short plays within 24 hours. The creative process begins the evening before, when the actors, writers, directors, and production staff gather for a meet and greet. With an hour to brainstorm, each participant shares a prop and costume, actors show off their special skills, and share something they’ve always wanted to do on stage.

The easiest way to level-up your film and television career

Venture: There are world-class sound stages here, amazing set locations, and top-tier talent with transferrable skills perfectly suited for working in the film industry. At any one time throughout the year, there will be countless shows and films of all kinds being shot in and around the city.

Louisiana woman makes royal attire for mystic krewes

Alton Telegraph: Dangling button earrings sway with Suzanne Breaux as she flips through binders of costume sketches — full of bell skirts and corset tops, embellished sleeves and dramatic collars. From floor to ceiling her shop is filled with sequins, yards of eccentric fabrics, hulking decorative tunics and bouffant-style skirts.

Filming in Montreal was down last year, but insiders expect record 2021

Montreal Gazette: Hollywood production in Montreal decreased big time last year because of the pandemic, dipping from $360 million a year earlier to $189 million in 2020. Filming stopped completely between March and July and U.S. filming only really restarted in September. But industry insiders believe 2021 could be a record year for Hollywood shooting here.

Madame Breaux Costume House: the woman behind krewe costumes

www.theadvertiser.com: Dangling button earrings sway with Suzanne Breaux as she flips through binders of costume sketches — full of bell skirts and corset tops, embellished sleeves and dramatic collars. From floor to ceiling her shop is filled with sequins, yards of eccentric fabrics, hulking decorative tunics and bouffant-style skirts.

BFC Clarifies Film and TV Production Guidelines as England Locks Down

Variety: England may be going into a month-long second lockdown from Thursday, but it’s largely business as usual where film and TV production is concerned. The British Film Commission (BFC) has updated its COVID-safe rules for filming, which were first published June 1. While England residents are advised not to travel overseas or within the U.K., production is exempt.

Virtual Production: An Introduction to its Use in the Entertainment Industry

AMT Lab @ CMU: Virtual production (VP) is “a broad term referring to a spectrum of computer-aided production and visualization filmmaking methods” (Spectre Studios). It is not just the technology itself, but also the methods through which it is used. In Parts I and II of this series, we are investigating the technology as well as the methodologies of VP in the broadest definition.

Pandemic Pushes Los Angeles Production Down 54%

Variety: The COVID-19 pandemic pushed down location production in the Los Angeles area by 54%, FilmLA reported on Wednesday.

The permitting agency’s data showed 4,199 shoot days from July through September. Reality TV was up 10.3% to 1,159 shoot days, while commercials slid 41.2% to 782 days. Paul Audley, longtime president of FilmLA, said production is poised for a moderate recovery during the current quarter.

Going Broke in Hollywood: TV Assistants Reel From Pandemic Pay Cuts

Vanity Fair: “Isobbed on the phone with my showrunner—our pay was already too low.”

That’s a Hollywood assistant describing her reaction when her boss let her know that the studio was jeopardizing her income in ways she found “cruel.” This assistant, one of more than 20 sources that Vanity Fair interviewed for this story, is an LGBTQ woman of color who works in TV. She doesn’t blame the showrunner for the kind of reductions that assistants all over the industry have been forced to accept in the wake of the pandemic. But she and many of her peers are furious at the studios that employ them.

Los Angeles County Approved Film and TV Production to Restart Friday

Variety: Los Angeles County is set to issue its guidelines on Thursday for the restart of film and TV production, allowing filming to resume as soon as Friday.

The county’s action follows a similar move by the California Department of Public Health, which said last week that production could return on Friday subject to approval from local authorities.

California is Ready to Resume Film Production – Is Hollywood?

Variety: Film and television production may be able to resume in California on June 12, but major studios are still weeks — if not months — away from rolling cameras.

Post-Pandemic Hollywood: How Will Companies Restart Production?

Variety: Tom Cruise expected to spend his summer in Italy, hanging onto the sides of planes, dodging bullets and engaging in elaborate car chases. The arrival of COVID-19 spoiled those plans, indefinitely postponing the shooting of “Mission: Impossible 7,” the latest installment of the globe-trotting espionage franchise.

Simulating Reality to Fix Mistakes, Improve Production

American Machinist: More than 200 years ago, philosopher Immanuel Kant described "virtual reality" as a reality that exists in our minds and is distinct from the external physical world. Today we use the term differently, but the concept of virtual reality retains Kant’s idea of a world that isn’t tangible, but that our mind can clearly perceive.

Machinist Tools: Edge Finding

Hackaday: Machinists like to live on the edge, but they always want to know precisely where it is. If you’ve watched any machining videos (*cough*) then you’ve seen heavy use of digital readouts on machines. A “DRO” (as the cool kids call them) is a little computer that knows where the slides are, and thus where your cutter is on the piece. However, there’s a catch. DROs don’t know the absolute position of the spindle, they know the relative position of it.

Production Designer Adds to ‘Jessica Jones,’ ‘Better Call Saul’

Variety: You don’t get to establish the overall look when you’re hired to work on a TV show that’s a season or more into its run, but the gig can still be creatively rewarding, says production designer Judy Rhee, who scored back-to-back jobs on two high-profile series in progress: “Marvel’s Jessica Jones” in its second season and “Better Call Saul” as it embarked on its fourth.