This past weekend, we shot the video that I’ll use to color up my in-person presentations — 31 vignettes illustrating principles from my book, GameChangers — Improvisation for Business in the Networked World, which goes on sale in December. The location was the low-slung school of coolness at USC known as the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, where my partner, Dr. Virginia Kuhn, teaches.
Patrick Jong Taylor, who edited the book and has a Masters Degree in Film Directing from USC, directed the video. DJ Johnson, who also has a Masters from USC, was the Director of Photography and will manage post-production. The cast — David Scott, Alexandra Brell, Victor Springer, Carley Marcelle, Jonathan Krieger, Derek Berg and Chad Reinhart — performed brilliantly. It was a sweet collaboration.
We needed kumquats (our generic ‘product’) for a couple of scenes, but it turns out kumquats were not in season and could not be found or purchased on Friday anywhere in Los Angeles . This flabbergasted (and humbled) us. Isn’ t everything in season all the time, in L.A.? Isn’t that what L.A. is all ABOUT?
Fittingly enough, we would have to improvise…stay tuned.
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