Posts by Frank Scacciaferro
Sophie Leiton Toomey: Student at NYU & working Actress
Sophie Leiton Toomey is a NYU drama major graduating in June of 2023. But Sophie Leiton Toomey is so much more than that. She is already an accomplished actor. She has scripted and produced several short and feature films. She is mentor and inspiration to friends and colleges. But most impressively she is a…
Read MoreJoAnn M. Hunter: Broadway Choreographer/Director/ Actress
If you combined accomplished a Broadway dancer /actor / singer with an accomplished Broadway choreographer then added a large portion of theater director, topped it all off with a brilliant mind and engaging personality, you would have JoAnn M. Hunter. Don’t think one person could process all of those attributes? Then you are in for…
Read MoreMike Bates: Recording Engineer/Construction Project Manager
What happens when a guitar player, meets a recording engineer, meets a firefighter, meets a broadcast A2 and finally meets a Construction Project Manager for a major New Jersey Utility company. What happens ?? Mike Bates happens. Michael Bates is or was all of those things. Succeeding in all those careers. To most it would…
Read MoreSTORYTELLING ISN’T STORY CREATION…SOMETIMES!
Story sounds like a simple word. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is incredibly complex. A complex story might be a feature film or a book series like The Hobbit or Harry Potter. A Broadway play or even Ted Talks are stories. Then again, it could be as simple as you relating a situation that happened…
Read MoreDON’T PLAY RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH YOUR CAREER
Stop blaming it on the technology. How often do you hear people say, “I never got that email.” Never got your text” or “My phone never rang”. Stop it! This isn’t 1980 when tech was still glitchy. How about the “My laptop crashed, and I lost all the notes from the preproduction meeting.” “Didn’t get…
Read MoreEXPERIENCE: PRO OR CON
Throughout my career’s early years, all I heard was, “You need more experience.” We all know the catch twenty-two about acquiring experience, “How do you get it if no one will give you a shot without it?” First, having experience doesn’t mean they are good at their job. It doesn’t even mean they know anything…
Read MoreINVENTIONS CREATE OBSOLESCENCE … DON’T LET IT!!
The power of AI, Wonder Studio, the family of Adobe apps, Avid and so much more have changed and are changing the way we create. But unlike past tech, new tech is coming at us so fast and furious (do I have to pay licensing fees for using that phrase) it’s hard to keep up, let alone master them. Historically,…
Read MoreFRANK SAW IT COMING…
“…I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I’ve been up and down and over and out…” Remember those lyrics sung by Frank Sinatra? No? Check out his video That’s Life or just the lyrics. This song could easily be your anthem once you decide to choose a life in the…
Read MoreWHAT CAME FIRST, THE TECH OR THE CREATIVE USE
Does tech drive creativity or does creativity drive the development of new tech? In the 70s creative artists turned a device for playing records, the turntable, into an instrument which became the center piece of a new genre of music. That creative use of old tech, tech that was originally developed to playback music from…
Read MoreLEARN BY SCREWING UP
“The greatest teacher, failure is”… spoken by Yoda in The Last Jedi. Other than the word scramble that is Yoda speak, that thought couldn’t be truer. It’s hard to believe when you’re starting out that screwing up on a gig isn’t going to be the end of your career but may be a leap forward.…
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