When we met Stephan in December of 2009, he was a VFX Supervisor and Artist at post production services house, Encore Hollywood. If you read the original profile, you can see he had already established himself as a strategic thinker with diverse pursuits, the latter reflected in a stint as Director of Digital Media [...]
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If you’ve ever watched “Dancing With the Stars” and wondered, “How do they get that thing on the air every week?” today you’re in luck. YII is giving you one piece of that puzzle, as well as providing you with the skinny on how someone gets to be working behind-the-scenes on a top-rated network [...]
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We here at YII sometimes like to check in with past profile subjects and find out what they’ve been doing since we originally talked to them. When we first spoke to Shana Hagan in April of 2009, she was on hiatus from her Camera Operator job on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.” Some people who work on [...]
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There are only three people in entertainment who can say they truly walk in the footsteps of Oscar-winning actors. Two of them are Stand-Ins and Stunt Doubles, who fill in for actors on the set for lighting prep and for dangerous moves, respectively. The third is called a Foley Artist. Today’s profile subject is [...]
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I know by now (2nd week of 2011) you are probably wondering, “Where’s all that new content she’s been hyping on the Facebook page and on Twitter?” I know, I know… but it’s coming! I’ve interviewed some great entertainment industry professionals – with many more to come. I’ve got some fantastic entertainment career advice in the works. [...]
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Walking the red carpet at an awards ceremony is a far cry from music touring venues and the indie film sets of Minneapolis where Costume Designer Lou Eyrich got her start. But she has been garnering award nominations for her work for while now, this year picking up her first Costume Designer’s Guild Award for her [...]
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Media-Match.com is a site which helps entertainment professionals and those looking to hire them find each other. Job-seekers (both freelance and permanent) can create profiles and can also search the jobs posted to the site, which come directly from the companies doing the search or from other job sites across the internet. Companies can post jobs [...]
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Roger Nygard has become a successful feature documentary filmmaker, and director and editor on episodic television series including ”The Bernie Mac Show,” ”The Office,” and ”Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but his entertainment career path was not a smooth one. In his profile, he talks candidly about his early struggles, and about how he turned a loan from his mother into much-needed career-stability. Current project: My latest documentary, THE NATURE OF [...]
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Today’s profile subject is one of the many “A-list” behind-the-scenes professionals working in entertainment today. You may not know his name, but when Adam Sandler wants to make sure the music for one of Happy Madison’s projects is edited in just the right way, he contacts J.J. Longtime readers of YII will recognize the humility and collaborative spirit of [...]
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First Assistant Director Ian Woolf knew at an early age what he wanted to do with his career. Knowing an AD and being familiarized with exactly what that job entailed (as opposed to having just a rough idea or worse yet, no clue) certainly helped somewhat guarantee satisfaction, but achieving the success was up to [...]
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