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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — WHAT WILL BE THE NEW NORMAL?
May 22, 2020February 27, 2021 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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“Hollywood” is the epicenter of the pandemic in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom
has clearly stated this as California looks to reopen cinema/TV production
shutdown by the coronavirus pandemic.
In Los Angeles county, the killing has raced past 2,000 dead.
[UPDATE: Today is Friday, June 12, 2020 and California and the County of Los
Angeles have opened up cinema/TV production in “Hollywood.” The “Reopening
Protocol for Music, Television and Film Production: Appendix J” is now
published.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” – MY 2003 BUSINESS PLAN & FINANCIAL PROJECTION
FOR EVERYBODY SAYS GOODBYE
June 14, 2019August 5, 2019 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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After I was divorced in the early 1990s, I ended up living in a small apartment
in Hollywood, near La Brea and Franklin, three blocks from the Chinese Theater.
I scrambled to make a living, to be creative, to make movies.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — THE BLENDED SCREENS: WHY SHORT FILMS?
August 18, 2018September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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ABOVE THE COMMON QUESTION “HOW LONG IS A SHORT FILM?*” SHOULD BE THE MORE
SIGNIFICANT QUESTION, “WHY A SHORT FILM?”
Good short films are enjoyable and moving, with stories that can have an impact
as strong as good feature-length films or powerful TV series. You can laugh,
cry, and be inspired watching a good short film.
But, why a short film? Long considered a sad attempt to mimic the more robust
and legitimate feature length film, shorts have often been given … well … short
shrift.
Those were the old days.
Today, the entire environment of content, what I term “The Blended Screens,” is
changing.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” – PALLION THE YOUNG STALLION SPEC SCRIPT FOR
BOJACK HORSEMAN
June 18, 2018September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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My favorite show on Netflix is BoJack Horseman, which reveals a lot about me,
since it’s a show about an emotionally dysfunctional has-been in Hollywood. So,
back in January 2018, I was motivated to write a spec script for the show. I
thought maybe I could replay the events decades earlier, described in “My Bumpy
Road Through “Hollywood” – There once was MOONLIGHTING“, but hoping for a better
result this time.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” – THAT TIME I DESIGNED THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN
June 17, 2018September 5, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / 2 Comments
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About a quarter century ago – my, how time flies! – I worked on a Paramount
Television production from the team responsible for the hit 1980s series MIAMI
VICE. It was a pilot starring Edward James Olmos for a proposed TV series called
“Hollywood Confidential.” Olmos played a former L.A. cop who now runs a
top-flight private detective agency catering to spoiled Hollywood types. (This
pilot helped launched the acting career of Charlize Theron.)
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” – THERE ONCE WAS MOONLIGHTING
December 30, 2017September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / 1 Comment
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Before Bruce Willis was BRUCE WILLIS, and when Cybill Shepherd was CYBILL
SHEPHERD, there were only three TV networks, a couple independent TV channels,
and cable TV was mostly just rebroadcasts of old shows and movies (HBO wouldn’t
get an Emmy nomination until more than a decade later).
One of those three networks – ABC, the American Broadcasting Company – had a
very successful series called MOONLIGHTING, starring Willis and Shepherd. Glenn
Gordon Caron was the creator. The show began in 1985.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — ON SET FOR LAW & ORDER TRUE CRIME: THE
MENENDEZ MURDERS
December 27, 2017April 20, 2019 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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As I wander through Hollywood throughout my life, I occasionally work as a
background actor, also known as an “extra.” Here is a story about my experience
lately when I was a “featured extra” on an NBC mini-series.
This is my stream-of-consciousness report about production experience these
days.
The TV mini-series “Law & Order True Crime: THE MENENDEZ MURDERS” was in
production in September and October of 2017 and aired as eight hour-long
episodes on NBC on Tuesday nights at 10:00 pm from September 26 to November 14.
It was produced by prolific producer Dick Wolf’s Wolf Films, based at Comcast’s
NBC/Universal lot in Universal City, California. NBC, the “National Broadcasting
Company,” is a prominent broadcast network that was one of the original
television broadcasting companies.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — STARTING OVER. AGAIN.
October 28, 2017August 5, 2019 / Michael R. Barnard / 2 Comments
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Since Middle School, I have been a writer, and was the editor of my school paper
in Ninth Grade.
I began in television in high school and became producer and writer for the New
Year’s Eve variety program “CELEBRATION” which aired on network affiliate TV
stations in Minneapolis for several years. I then helped build and put on the
air a new broadcast TV station, Channel 29, and became its Operations Manager as
well as Writer, Producer, and Director for in-house programs and clients’
productions. I went on to work for several production companies, including TV
production trucks, and went out on my own as an independent Writer, Producer,
and Director. My productions included live and taped talk shows, variety
programs, holiday specials, sports broadcasts, interstitial segments, concerts,
conventions, commercials, and industrials. Minneapolis is a major market area,
which Nielson ranks as 15th largest.
I became friends with Prince and helped open his Paisley Park Studios. I
marketed PPS around the world for productions and rehearsals, and produced some
of Prince’s video projects, including his “ALPHABET STREET” music video and his
“BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE HOMELESS.” I also wrote, produced, and directed my own
projects, including “THE BERENGUER BOOGIE” which celebrated the Minnesota Twins’
first World Series win.
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KICKSTARTER STEPS UP FOR CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, BECOMES NEW
BENEFIT CORPORATION
September 21, 2015September 21, 2015 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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If you follow business issues, particularly corporate entity structure and how
the existing incorporation laws require companies to ignore the common good in
favor of shareholder profits, then you may have applauded the recent creation of
a new corporate entity form: the Benefit Corporation (also referred to as a
“B-Corporation”). The popular current corporate structure (referred to as a
“C-Corporation”) often comes under fire from all sides of the political spectrum
because of the damage done to the economy, environment, and citizens as a result
of its traditional focus on short-term profits. See, for example, “Clinton
outlines steps to curb U.S. companies’ focus on short-term profits“.
Social funding site KICKSTARTER has just now converted to a Benefit Corporation.
KICKSTARTER
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — HOT CAR
January 20, 2015September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / 1 Comment
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I said to myself, for quite some time now, “I gotta do SOMETHING.” Tired of
projects failing, hating the junior high cliquishness of crowdfunding, realizing
it’s been too many years. I sought the Holy Grail of indie filmmaking: two
people, one room, one day.
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THE PRESENT THREAT TO THE INTERNET
November 30, 2014July 17, 2015 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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Photo by Paula Borowska
WHAT IS THE THREAT TO NET NEUTRALITY?
Millions of American citizens have flooded the FCC website with comments to let
the agency know our demand for Net Neutrality. Many citizens are intimidated by
this wonky and technical issue, knowing they do not fully understand the complex
issues or its importance and urgency.
The threats to the Internet are real, and now newly-empowered scurrilous
politicians, demagogues, and greedy mega-corporations are mounting huge
campaigns to scuttle Net Neutrality so that the corporations can use their power
over the Internet for political purposes, for demagoguery, and for profiteering.
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BARNARD’S LAWS
September 30, 2014December 15, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / 1 Comment
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Photo by Alejandro Escamilla
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Barnard’s Law No. 1
The greatest need of humans is not food, shelter, or even sex. It’s the need to
rewrite what another has written.
Barnard’s Law No. 2
It’s not the idea. It’s the execution.
Barnard’s Law No. 3
Dinosaurs never see it coming.
Barnard’s Law No. 4
The responsibility to communicate is upon the communicator, not the listener.
Barnard’s Law No. 5
The job of children is to play. The job of teens is to deceive their parents.
The job of adults is to slay their demons.
Barnard’s Law No. 6
Clarity is the soul of communication.
Barnard’s Law No. 7
Life is full of grand plans that suddenly need to be fixed with duct tape, and
that’s okay.
Barnard’s Law No. 8
Be succinct. A short PowerPoint slide with just ten bullet points was good
enough for God.
Barnard’s Law No. 9
In any group, the majority will misunderstand much of what you’re sure they
understand.
Barnard’s Law No. 10
Hysteria breeds where context is ignored. Looking at results of history without
knowledge of history leads to poor judgment and prejudice.
Barnard’s Law No. 11
The Internet demands of everyone that they be outraged by everything. It then
amplifies it.
Barnard’s Law No. 12
Everyone else’s mess is far worse than our own mess. Roommates, especially.
Barnard’s Law No. 13
Heroes run in the opposite direction than the rest of us.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — A VENOM IN THE BLOOD
August 28, 2014September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / 1 Comment
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BARNARD BUYS VENOM RIGHTS – Daily Variety
Two decades ago, I bought a book.
In producer-speak, that means I acquired the rights via option to make a movie
from a book. I knew a TV news reporter, and she had made contact with a
reclusive author who wrote a book she thought I might be interested in.
Actually, “reclusive” is too weak of a term; we both had determined that the
author was in hiding. Contact was difficult and cryptic. Nonetheless, he and I
got on the phone, and he figured that I would be someone he’d like to work with
to get his book made into a movie, and I liked the deal, too. We sealed the deal
without ever meeting.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — CONSUMED BY A PASSION PROJECT
August 7, 2014September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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FILMMAKER Magazine
HOW IS A FILMMAKER CONSUMED BY A PASSION PROJECT?
> The following is a guest post from Michael R. Barnard, who is in the final
> days of an Indiegogo campaign for his film, Everybody Says Goodbye: The Story
> of a Father and Son.
For many years, I have been chasing a motion picture project that has completely
consumed me. It’s called Everybody Says Goodbye: The Story of a Father and Son,
and I first began writing the screenplay in 1998. Having come so close to making
the movie a few times, I keep referring to this project as “a fish-hook in the
eye” because it’s impossible for me to ignore and walk away from.
[read more…]
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — THE MEAN STREETS
August 6, 2014September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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Photo by Israel Sundseth
I spent a lot of time on the mean streets of Hollywood. I lived there, worked
there, had friends there, I walked them a lot. My screenplay for the feature
film EVERYBODY SAYS GOODBYE—The Story of a Father and Son is set there, in 1998.
The sketchy stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard between La Brea Avenue and Vine
Street is a little nicer now, but not by much. There has always been a veneer of
potential violence.
It’s a little different style-wise, too. Back in the 1990s, if you saw a couple
walking hand-in-hand along this stretch, and that couple was of opposite
genders, and if each of them were their original gender, then you knew they were
scared tourists separated from their tour group.
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — THERE WAS A RECESSION IN 1991
August 6, 2014September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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BEAR Photo by Thomas Lefebvre
(originally published April 22, 2010)
There was a recession in 1991. Not as big as this Great Recession, but big
nonetheless. A hallmark of the 1991 recession was that, for the first time ever,
a recession had a negative impact on “Hollywood” [Entertainment Weekly, 2/22/91:
“How will the recession affect Hollywood?”], [Den of Geek, 8/18/14: “How 1991
nearly broke Hollywood”]. Home video, cable TV, and video games had broadened
the “biz” and brought commodity vagaries to the tightly-controlled movie biz. It
was also the time of the burgeoning new indie film biz, which blossomed in the
late 1980s. And I, of course, was trying to get a movie made.
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FILMMAKERS: BLACKER IS ‘THE NEW BLACK’
May 25, 2014July 18, 2014 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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The NAB Show 2014 in Las Vegas is showing many new and innovate products and
processes for indie filmmakers. Colors are becoming important, including black.
CIE 1931 xy chromaticity diagram showing the gamut of the sRGB color space and
location of the primaries
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — WHEN PRINCE WAS KING
April 25, 2014September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / 1 Comment
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PRINCE
[UPDATE: THIS WAS WRITTEN LONG BEFORE MY FRIEND PRINCE PASSED AWAY. I STILL MISS
HIM AND AM STILL SHOCKED.]
A friend just now found and sent to me this post from Prince.org, the Prince
fan site that described how I pulled off the production of Prince’s ALPHABET
STREET video on impossible notice! It is from the book, Possessed: The Rise and
Fall of Prince by Alex Hahn. Funny that I’ve never seen this before.
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THE INTERNET NEEDS TO BE FREE. [UPDATED APRIL 23 2014]
April 23, 2014July 19, 2015 / Michael R. Barnard / 5 Comments
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FLOCK OF BIRDS Photo by Fré Sonneveld
THE INTERNET NEEDS TO BE FREE
Yes, free.
That’s not a statement about pricing, it’s a statement about democracy.
This is what is commonly referred to as “Net Neutrality.”
> The following blog post keeps evolving since its original posting in 2010,
> because the concept of “Net Neutrality” (or the attempt at a more popular
> term, “The Open Internet“) is vibrant.
>
> > UPDATE AS OF APRIL 23, 2014
> >
> > Breaking news:
> >
> > I guess it’s time to say goodbye to the many independent online film
> > distribution companies who offer streaming and downloading of independent
> > movies. The F.C.C., in a complete turn-around on the principles of Net
> > Neutrality, just announced that they are abandoning the principle that
> > Internet users should have equal ability to see any content they choose. The
> > F.C.C. plans to allow Comcast, Verizon FiOS, etc., to negotiate separately
> > with each content company – the BIG, WEALTHY, EXCLUSIVE companies like
> > Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Google – to have them pay for good video
> > delivery.
> >
> > Aside from the democracy of the Internet, that does not look good for the
> > competition of small distributors, nor for indie filmmakers themselves,
> > whose voice will not be allowed on those company’s libraries of titles.
> >
> > See “F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane”
>
> This subject is currently getting louder. By the end of March, 2014, it heated
> up in a war of words.
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EQUITY CROWDFUNDING IS DEAD FOR US. WHAT’S NEXT?
March 19, 2014July 19, 2015 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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DEAD CAR Photo by Kristian Karlsson
If you remember that there once was a glimmer of hope for more sustainable
financing for innovative small business (and, for my concern, an indie film
industry) through “Equity Crowdfunding” as demanded by the JOBS Act of 2012, the
fact is that it’s not going to happen. It’s already far past the Act’s imposed
deadlines because the concept is anathema to the entrenched and self-interested
bureaucracy.
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HOW TO SURVIVE ON SET WITHOUT LOOKING LIKE AN ASSHOLE
March 2, 2014 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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> Nice compilation of things sometimes overlooked.
CALLAM RODYA | BROADCAST JOURNALIST
Callam Rodya as Roddy with 3rd AD Alex Pitzel slating the shot on the set of
“Stalking by Numbers”.
When it comes to film work, actors have it the easiest. Don’t argue. You know
it’s true.
In case you need a bit more convincing, consider this:
* We’re the last ones called and the first ones wrapped.
* There is a team on set whose sole job is to make us look beautiful.
* They tell us where to stand, where to walk, and what to say, and they even
put down little pieces of tape for us and print out our lines on little
pocket-sized sheets to make it extra easy.
* We get to stay warm in the trailer while they’re out there in a snow storm
setting up the shot.
* We usually get paid better.
* We get all the credit.
Don’t get me wrong, acting is extremely difficult (especially when you…
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CORPORATE CONGLOMERATES BATTLE TO REGAIN GATEKEEPER STATUS
February 18, 2014July 19, 2015 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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The merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable is a powerful situation that
has broad negative implications for society and for filmmakers specifically.
It’s not simply a business issue, it’s a democracy issue.
The merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable is another deliberate attack on
Net Neutrality.
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CRIPPLING DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION FOR INDIE FILMMAKERS: THE DEATH OF NET NEUTRALITY
January 15, 2014July 19, 2015 / Michael R. Barnard / 2 Comments
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On my way to Sundance Film Festival 2014, news broke (see “Federal appeals court
strikes down rules protecting net neutrality” at
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-net-neutrality-federal-appeals-court-20140114,0,2138188.story#ixzz2qlsuWDSC)
that made two problems painfully clear, and they will have a huge impact on
filmmakers:
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THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING INDUSTRY NEEDS A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH
INVESTORS [UPDATED]
October 5, 2013July 19, 2015 / Michael R. Barnard / 17 Comments
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Prolific indie film producer Ted Hope, who spent the past year as Executive
Director of the San Francisco Film Society (as of June 2015, a Production
Executive at AMAZON STUDIOS), recently posted “Towards A Sustainable Investor
Class: Accessing Quality Projects” as a call to build a healthy independent
filmmaking industry. As always, he makes an astute and excellent comment about
the big picture of indie filmmaking. We engaged in a conversation, and here’s my
comment about the industry and investors: Continue reading →
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MY BUMPY ROAD THROUGH “HOLLYWOOD” — CROWDFUNDING SUCKS.
September 10, 2013September 1, 2018 / Michael R. Barnard / Leave a comment
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CROWDFUNDING SUCKS.
IN THE PAST TWO DAYS, I’VE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS THAT REMIND ME THAT THERE IS
NO “FUN” IN CROWDFUND. IT IS A NECESSARY EVIL, BORNE OF THE COLLAPSE OF THE
ECONOMY, POSSIBLY THE ONLY CHANCE FOR THE ART OF FILMMAKING TO CONTINUE. THAT’S
VERSUS THE MARKETING CHANNEL THAT IS THE CURRENT HOLLYWOOD STUDIO APPROACH,
WHERE A “MOVIE” IS WHATEVER CAN BE MARKETED.
A CROWDFUND CAMPAIGN IS ALL WORK, A HARSH REFERENDUM ON THE PERSON, SPIRITUALLY
DEBILITATING AND, OF COURSE, A DEATH KNELL FOR A MOVIE PROJECT MORE OFTEN THAN
ENABLING. (LITERALLY.) THERE IS NO FUN IN CROWDFUNDING. IT OVERTAKES ONE’S LIFE
FOR A MONTH OR TWO.
BUT YESTERDAY…
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