The Artists: Arts, Culture, and Cinema with Suchita Bhhatia

In Bollywood 70 percent of the budget goes into paying stars; In Hollywood, it is 30 percent. Last couple of months, all and everyone has been talking about the commerce of movie making- the failing of Big Budget films at the box office; Is it OTT take over, a change in the taste of the audience,; is it the skewed budgets- what is it that filmmakers need to get- red flagged- if at all-about? Our guest is media analyst Karan Taurani, a Research analyst covering Media/Entertainment/Consumer/Internet sector closely with over 14 years ; currently Senior Vice President with Elara Capital, ranked #1 analyst for Entertainment Sector globally.

1) Audience exposure to international content- compelling stories.
2) Kind of Stories /storytelling needed for theatrical release: now and onwards.
3) Does Social media trends like Boycotts, have an impact on the audience psyche? Eg: Laal Singh Chaddha.
4) Audience tastes changing continuously- Innovation is needed.
5) Theatrical segment in India has the lion's share- irreplaceable..
6) Small budgeted films and their theatrical future
7) Strategies for small films with no superstars.
8) Risk-averse produce relying on OTTs.
9) Bollywood: 70 percent of budget goes into paying stars; Hollywood: 30 percent- RESTRUCTURING NEEDED?
10) Ticket pricings: Audience moving towards experience.
11) AVOD, T VOD, S VOD, and the future: Netflix.

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Ep 109 of THE ARTISTS podcast is dedicated to Jean Luc Godard- the master, the rebel, the theoretician, the philosopher- Adios!!

In this podcast episode, we have Judith Weston, who has been a sought-after coach and teacher for 35 years, to filmmakers and actors around the world. Her students include directors like Alejandro G Innaritu, Ava Duvernay, Taika Waititi....She has authored the most popular books on Cinema: Directing Actors and the Film director's intuition.
Find her :www.judithweston.com

DIGS:
1) On teaching Alejandro G Innaritu, Ava Duvernay, Taika Waititi, and Steve Mcqueen.
2) Directors being afraid of the actors.
3) Directors placing themselves in the position of actors to be more empathetic.
4) Start with THE WHY- why you wrote this character.
5) Navigating through a good actor, a bad actor and a STAR.
6)Technique vs intuition: the objective of the scene.
7)Building an actor-director trust relationship.
8) A few things actors should look at in a script- the 3 ways!
9)Improvisations and the subconscious.
10) Evolution in Acting.

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What is original? How is music in Cinema changing? What is influencer Culture, Elon Musk and more with Master of all- Madhavan Narayanan, a senior journalist with all the leading publications from The Quint, to Business Standards.

Find him on all social media handles.

Digs:

1) Master of all- how do you acquire that skill
2) Commonality between Gulzar and T.S Eliot- What is original?
3)Music in Cinema- and how could it be changing?
4) On vibrations..
5) On Morality
6) On Elon Musk
7) On Influencer Culture
8) On Jeff Bezos eating cockroaches
9) On the most important political trend
10) On Translating

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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Are you getting acquainted with Web3- the next future- that is already here. with 30 million plus users- Web 3 is here to disrupt everything from content creation, storytelling, to banking, to e commerce- you name it. We are quickly moving towards the Decentralised economy where power gets shifted in the hands of the creators and the consumers.

Adapt or die!!

Ep 107 with the founder of Mcontent- Umair Masoom Usmani on Web3, and the future for indie filmmakers, content creators and the film industry.


1) Explain Web 3 to a person living in the remote jungles of Africa
2) Quantify the content industry: a football field multiplied by ......
3) Mcontent- Decentralising the entire content ecosystem- 80 percent of the content that you consume as viewers- you should be an owner in them
4) Distributing power, and monies between creator and the viewer- Token holders.
5) Becoming a Token Holder- creator, viewer, investors.
6) 5 parts of the ecosystem- funding, curation, streaming, trading/licensing, web 3 cinema.
7)How is the problem of attracting the right viewer or or TG getting solved.
8) creating ur own circular economy to showcase your content
9) GEN Z will not consume content the traditional way- most of the traditional ways might become obsolete in 5 years.
10.) future of stories /indie films in web 3
11) build the community then build the product- web 3

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EP 106th of THE ARTISTS podcast features Anjul Nigam, an Indian American actor who paved his way in Hollywood (aspirational to many) by working in popular shows like Greys Anatomy, Never Have I ever and much more. He was part of the Termination franchise (Terminator Salvation). Also as a theatre actor working with the likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Sharing real life anecdotes makes this soulful episode memorable to all the aspirants and gets us to ground zero- FIND YOUR OWN TRUE PATH.

Digs:

1) An immigrant in the U.S
2) Film school or No film school- perpetually divided question
3)Getting shaped by watching the likes of Dustin Hoffman.
4) Incidental moments that chart your destiny.
5) Rahuls and Rajeevs in Hollywood
6) Getting work-
7) Producing, Directing.
8) No one has the magic wand-

Enjoy this soulful episode 106.

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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What is at the intersection of blockchain and filmmaking?
Have you thought of making a film in the Metaverse?
What will this do to the future of Storytelling?
We are in Conversation with Leo Matchett , CEO and Co founder of Decentralised Pictures Foundation.

Digs:

1) Crypto, Blockchain and transparency in filmmaking
2)What is blockchain technology?- syncing and consensus across all the nodes in the network .
3) Where do we stand in the use of blockchain?
4) Making financing and content creation more democratic
5) Algorithms are democratic but what makes a well told story great
6) Kind of stories that will emerge
7) Filmmaking in the metaverse!!

We are dropping in some video clips for the episode as well- catch that!!

Njoy. 

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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Imagine being able to buy a poster of one of the oldest and popular films in the world- the only one existing right now, or imagine dining next to Super star Mr. Bachchan or Scorsese in a Metaverse.. In this very interesting Ep 104 of THE ARTISTS podcast we have SMM AUSAJA- a historian and a Film archivist, currently a part of an NFT platform that has Film memorabilia items especially the old Indian films. Find him on Linked in.

We dig multiple things:

1) Film archiving & memorabilia
2) We haven't preserved our Indian cinema heritage as we should have
reason: lack of government support
3) What does only Hindi Cinema memorabilia include.
4) Charlie Chaplin has a museum dedicated in his name, here we barely know Ashok Kumar who was a superstar in 30's & 40's.
5) Process of owning a FILM MEMORABILIA NFT.
6) What qualifies as an NFT.
7) The 3 things that need to be addressed to attract more people towards NFT'S.
8) Metaverse a future for creators.
9) Why you should invest in Film memorabilia NFT and help in supporting film heritage.

Njoy!

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Ep 103 of THE ARTISTS podcast is with Critic and journalist Mayank Shekhar. We try to dissect the word ENTERTAINMENT in the times of content bombardment.

Digs:

1) What does the word entertainment mean.
2) How can entertainment be measured!
3) If everything is becoming individualistic what should the creators see their art form as.
4) Every one is the creator and the consumer!!
5) The value of a movie or content is determined by the state of the receiver- so how do you classify a piece of work!
6) The future of Entertainment.

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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Is there a leadership vaccum that we are witnessing in an influencer culture? But what is leadership? In this Episode 102 of THE ARTISTS podcast we talk about why leadership is the key aspect of any profession including if you are an Artist. Our guest is Gordon Tredgold who is Global Gurus Top 10 Leadership Experts and Speakers with quite a bite of social media following. Find him on twitter.

Digs:

1) Leadership in the world of Artists
2) Qualities of a leader
3) Worlds best leaders- from Obama to Julius Caesar
4) Leader vs Influencers
5) An influencer is a leader- like Kim Kardashian
6) We have to choose who to get influenced by-
7) From becoming a good leader to a great leader- Integrity is the key

Njoy

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Outro Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod
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80000 movies are made every year world wide.How can blockchain technology and NFT'S help you to channelise your films and make money as an Artist.
Where is this technology heading and do you see yourself fitting into this probable future. Pls welcome Adrian Lugol, founder Cinemarket and Cineverse that is currently getting pitched at the EFM as one of the startups to watch:

Digs:

What are you looking at in terms of the pitch of your start up at EFM
Blockchain technology and its future in Arts and movies.
Netflix at the core is a tech company..
Things you can solve with this new technology, but still there are lots of complexities..
How to access Cineverse ?
How do you make the world aware about your NFT?
What are NFT'S and the next predicted 10 billion dollar industry
Neils Juul and the art of raising funds through NFT's- but is it for everyone..

njoy

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