IDEAS Assistant Editor Rebecca Hodges will be speaking on a Microbudget Screenwriting Panel at the StarLite Film Festival on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 11:00am. This one-of-a-kind micro-budget film festival promotes the screening and development of feature length narrative films that are produced, shot, and completed for a total budget of less t ...

One of the many qualities of a leader is not to pick favorites, but let me leave that kinda’ chit chat for another time. So, do you pick favorites? Oh, no? Your pants are on fire! When I first met Christine Biondo, she came across as a “bossy” person but that is because she knows what she wants, she doesn’t want to waste time and I did not ...

Today we celebrated National Pie Day. About two weeks ago Caroline Masse asked if we could celebrate by asking our staff to bake/make two pies each. One pie would be for our celebration and the other would be for our friends at the Women’sResidential   & Counseling Center located a couple blocks from our building. A few times a year we have ...

Humans are social animals. In order to be healthy and to get anything done, we have evolved to form and function within groups, to specialize and cooperate. We use a very complex set of communication systems- mostly tacit- to make this work. These systems are repeated and refined over and over again through an evolutionary process and the result is ...

IDEAS hosted Orlando's first Corona SDK meetup last night, presented by Carlos Icaza. Corona SDK is a development platform which can create apps and games for iPad/iPhone along with Android, Kindle, Nook and soon, MacOS. The biggest draw of Corona is perhaps the simplicty of use. One of their best examples of this can be seen in their "Physics in ...

The creative process has this image of being an act of artistic inspiration that quickly teleports itself to a marvelous finish with smashing result. I hear a lot of interviews and read a lot online that supports this myth. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, just that I’ve never seen it. What I have seen time and time again is the deep value o ...

When you toil in the fields of story—honest work by the way—you sometimes get a chance to help grow something vital and important. IDEAS is a team of passionate creators so when we got a chance to help the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts create the next chapter in their story, it was an all hands on deck moment. This is personal fo ...

What we are thankful for 2011: httpv://youtu.be/mA5CQAPUPWo ...

When thinking of the integral role of storytelling in every phase of fundraising, there are myriad ways to examine how fundraising is impacted by this simple, yet profound tool for communicating. To me they are like fractals that when combined create a whole—and all are necessary. Through my years of work, I have identified a number of axioms tha ...

Since graduating college and entering into the world of post production, it seems like everyone asks the question: Which editing program do you prefer, Avid or Final Cut? In one corner you have Avid, the old reliable used by seasoned professionals around the globe. In the other corner is Final Cut, the new kid on the block with a lot of promise. Wi ...