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Script Tales: “The AVL Commitment” (Part 1)

May 21, 2013 By brienlee Leave a Comment

If you’ve been following along with my scriptwriting series, you now know that a script can be almost anything, as long as it provides a blueprint to tell a story. Words, interviews, sounds, music and of course pictorial descriptions are …

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Filed Under: Corporate Media, Creativity, History Lesson, Proposal Writing, scriptwriting, Writing Tagged With: a/v scriptwriting, Audio Visual Labaratories, Audio Visual Labs, AVL, Brien Lee, Chuck Kappenman, corporate scriptwriting, Randy Klein, Ric Sorgel, Sorgel-Lee, writing video scripts

It Was 46 Years ago Today: Pet Sounds

May 19, 2013 By brienlee Leave a Comment

For four years, the Beach Boys were America’s top-selling band, cruising as it were on surf songs, car songs, romantic ballads, and incredible harmonies and arrangements. That might have been enough for most bands– and in fact, often was.

And …

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Filed Under: Ideas, music Tagged With: 1966, 45rpm, Beach Boys, Brian WIlson, Brien Lee, Capitol Records, composer, Grammy, LPs, Mark Linnett, music, musician, Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys, vocalese

Corporate Scriptwriting 103: Say it With Music

May 12, 2013 By brienlee 2 Comments

Some people think pictures, others thing words. I think music.

It’s just the way I was brought up… show tunes, Sinatra, the Nutcracker, and rock & roll.

When I was a mini-kid, music came from the radio or 78rpm records.

The …

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Filed Under: music, scriptwriting, Writing Tagged With: a/v scriptwriting, audio, audio-visual soundtracks, chappell music, corporate video soundtrack, library music, scriptwriting tips, Sorgel-Lee, writing video scripts

“AVSquad” History of Sorgel-Lee and Slide Era Reposted

March 1, 2013 By brienlee Leave a Comment

Fifteen years ago, on the Brien Lee Creative Solutions webpage, I wrote a ten-chapter or so history of my first ten years in the a-v /slide / video business, and entitled it “The AVSquad”.

Somewhere along the line, I figured …

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Filed Under: History Lesson, I know I'm old, Ideas, Uncategorized Tagged With: a/v scriptwriting, Brien Lee, Linda Duczman, multi-image, Ric Sorgel, Rob Riordan, slide shows, slide-sound shows, Sorgel-Lee, Steve Lutomski

Corporate Video Scriptwriting 102: Write it Out Loud

January 7, 2013 By brienlee Leave a Comment

“What you’re reading here is meant to be read, not heard. So my words must do all the work. The writing is necessarily complete, formal, and structured like the sentences we diagrammed in grade school. Each sentence has a subject, verb, and …

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Filed Under: Corporate Media, Geezersayswhat?, Historical Perspective, History Lesson, scriptwriting, Talent, Writing Tagged With: Arthur Godfrey, Brien Lee, corporate video tips, Creativity, scriptwriting, scriptwriting tips, The Corporative Creative, writing video scripts

Corporate Video Scriptwriting 101: Words Only Where Necessary

November 14, 2012 By brienlee Leave a Comment

The most under-praised and misunderstood part of any video production is the script.

First of all, there is always a script, even if it’s only in one’s head. (Who is “Number One”, by the way?)

Also, can you really trust a writer …

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Filed Under: Corporate Media, Creativity, scriptwriting Tagged With: a/v scriptwriting, corporate scriptwriting, scriptwriting, scriptwriting tips, video scriptwriting, writing video scripts

How Experience Makes Each Learning Opportunity Easier and Faster (Happy B’Day, Interwebs!)

August 8, 2012 By brienlee Leave a Comment

Problem-solving capabilities are one part experience, one part nature. Your ability to solve  work-related problems depends on your field, your place in the time-continuum (maturity) of that field, and your own adaptive nature (or simple curiosity).

This week marks the 21st year …

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Filed Under: Corporate Media, Creativity, Geezersayswhat?, History Lesson, I know I'm old, Talent Tagged With: age, better not older, client relationships, experience, How to Be Creative, Hypercard, interactive cd-rom, interactive videodisc, Internet, Wireframing

The Customer is Always Right– Always?

August 5, 2012 By brienlee Leave a Comment

I had lunch with a music composer some time back, celebrating a successful video project he and I had worked on together, when we got to discussing clients. This is sort of standard operating procedure when creatives-for-hire get together.

We …

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Filed Under: Corporate Media, Creativity, CYA, Historical Perspective, History Lesson, Managing Creatives, Partnerships, Writing Tagged With: client relationships, creative autonomy, Creativity, customer relations, Killing Creativity, scriptwriting, The Corporative Creative

R.I.P. Frank Pierson: Cool Hand Luke, Cat Ballou, Dog Day Afternoon

July 28, 2012 By brienlee Leave a Comment

 

Frank Pierson, the writer of some of my favorite movies, especially Cool Hand Luke, died recently, and the New York Times had a particularly insightful tribute piece featuring interviews with those who new him or his work best …

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Filed Under: Corporate Media

Louis C.K. and Creative Autonomy

March 27, 2012 By brienlee Leave a Comment

Louis C.K. tells the New York Times about his unique and creatively successful relationship with the FX Network. Of particular interest is his negotiations for doing the pilot, and what that revealed about the FX network’s unique approach to creative …

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Filed Under: Managing Creatives, Partnerships, Talent Tagged With: creative autonomy, creative-financial partnerships, Creativity, FX Network, How to Be Creative, Louis C.K.
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Script Tales: “The AVL Commitment” (Part 1)

May 21, 2013 By brienlee Leave a Comment

If you’ve been following along with my scriptwriting series, you now know that a script can be almost anything, as long as it provides a blueprint to tell a story. Words, interviews, sounds, music and of course pictorial descriptions are …

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It Was 46 Years ago Today: Pet Sounds

May 19, 2013 By brienlee Leave a Comment

For four years, the Beach Boys were America’s top-selling band, cruising as it were on surf songs, car songs, romantic ballads, and incredible harmonies and arrangements. That might have been enough for most bands– and in fact, often was.

And …

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