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Inspiration, interviews & information about #careers around cameras, working with #photography, #filmmaking & visualmedia. Retweets & likes are not endorsements

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

For a real insight in to working in the media, we have over 50 interviews with media professionals who told us about their work and careers in the industry. https://t.co/oEBa8Wi9yl #careers #media

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

Wishing @LeeMcKenzieTV a speedy recovery and swift return to the f1 paddock.

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

Photographer Elliott Erwitt passed away.

https://t.co/COzObqPx7M

[Ryan Cardone @cardonephoto]

So I am having a little show. If you haven’t heard. 🤣

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

Stunning camera work. @motogp, any chance you can credit the camera op?

[MotoGP™🏁 @MotoGP]

That's just ridiculous really isn't it 😅

@88jorgemartin 🔥

#CatalanGP 🏁

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

Skateboarding and the Sony VX1000: a look at why skateboard filmmakers loved it..

https://t.co/GmlauOL84N

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

Good advice..

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In early 1992, an aspiring director asked James Cameron,

How do you become a successful director?

Cameron's movie "Terminator 2" was the top-grossing movie of 1991, so Cameron, who had no formal film education, was arguably the best person in the world to ask.

Cameron replied,

“If you have to ask somebody how to be a film director, you’ll probably never do it."

Cameron added that this is his reply to everyone who asks him that question. For 2 reasons:

Number 1...

In his books on screenwriting, Syd Field writes that the core trait of all great characters is the character's “dramatic need.”

With a “dramatic need” (to get something, to go somewhere, to beat someone, etc.), the character persists through the story’s relentless series of obstacles, problems, and conflicts.

To become a successful film director, Cameron says, you need to have a dramatic need.

Like a good story, the filmmaking process, Cameron explains, is a relentless series of obstacles, problems, and conflicts.

Someone who gets discouraged by his reply, Cameron says, clearly does not have the “dramatic need” needed to persist.

But “if [my reply] pisses you off, and then you go out and say, ‘I’m going to show that Jim Cameron; I am going to be a director’—that gives you the kind of true grit you need to have in order to go through with it.”

Number 2...

Of all the successful filmmakers Cameron knows, he said, “No two people ever did it the same way.”

Their career trajectories were each uniquely shaped by their unique strengths and weaknesses.

“Whatever your strengths and weaknesses,” Cameron says, “you have to find the path that’s going to work for you.”

This made me think of a line from the comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell:

“Where there’s a way or path, it is someone else’s path; each human being is a unique phenomenon. The idea is to find your own path."

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“I’ve always felt that people seek out the information and knowledge they need. They seek it out and find it...Nobody will give you the pathway. It’s something you have to find yourself.” — James Cameron

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[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

A sad day when another magazine closes.

[𝔻𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕝 𝔹𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕤 @denialvibes]

There it is folks, the final ever Mini Magazine. Arriving with subscribers now, in shops tomorrow.

[Dazeley @PETERDAZELEY]

Yesterday I had the pleasure & fun of giving a talk to the kids of @KingswoodHouseSchool about my #dyslexia and my career as a photographer. It was lovely to share my learning difficulties and encourage them to consider dyslexia as a superpower of problem solving. @AssocPhoto

[No Film School @nofilmschool]

Test footage from the industry-changing Steadicam (1974) 🎥

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

Some wonderful insect macro photography amongst these competition winners:

https://t.co/5Qb1BtvDHU

[Joe Bleasdale @JoeBleasdale2]

After 13 tiring but amazing days out in France I’m headed home having ✅ off my third @24hoursoflemans!

From setting up the broadcast studio to assisting with social media content throughout the race, my time with @radiolemans was brilliant.

Ferry, home, sleep.

Au revoir 🇫🇷

[Alex Goy @A1GOY]

Not fun to be freelance right now, so chasing invoices that are MONTHS late has stopped being a fun thing and more a 'please pay me so my lights stay on' game. Freelancers do their bit on time, clients should really do theirs.

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

#careers

[James Elliott @OctaneJames]

Experienced motoring journalist? Fancy working for Octane's parent company Autovia on titles including Auto Express and evo? Then click away: https://t.co/9SSbCuvsQG

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

Brilliant..

[Sky Sports F1 @SkySportsF1]

Martin Brundle randomly deciding to interview this 89 year old photographer is amazing 😄📷

[No Film School @nofilmschool]

Craftsmanship at its finest 🏀🎥https://t.co/m2iTSSFYWU

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

For this famous scene in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick took a bit of inspiration from the silent era.
(The Phantom Carriage 1921 and Broken Blossoms 1919)

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

When you have to nail it on the first take: https://t.co/f41Q4XnXtA

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

A look at that important U.S. judgement on copyright infringement: https://t.co/5jNNPnw2U8

[PetaPixel @petapixel]

BREAKING: The United States Supreme Court has released its opinion on The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case, finding in favor of Lynn Goldsmith and stating that Warhol’s use of her photo was not fair use.
https://t.co/d4bLvT6bsK

[CreativesGo @creativesgo]

Some great imagery amongst these 2023 Food Photographer of the Year winners:
https://t.co/T1uMGrsZIY