You have recruited a great team and you know your success will grow from their professional development. You know you want to invest in the future of your company by making everyone around you smarter. Or, you'd like to host an event for your creative community and professional organization.
HiattMedia teaches creative and production skills in a development environment or as on-the-job training in pre-production and production. We can also review post-production planning and provide tutoring in editorial and storytelling techniques.
HiattMedia is available for lectures and presentations and custom-designed production workshops anywhere in the world to help you define new audiences and create category-busting formats.
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Going over lighting design choices and camera positions with the MAN VS. CHILD team at IHQ in Seoul.
“Showrunners are ‘Hyphenates’ – a curious hybrid of starry-eyed artists and tough-as-nails operational managers. It’s one of the most unusual and demanding, right-brain/left-brain job descriptions in the entertainment world.”
Lincoln shares producing lessons in NYC with the Entertainment Master Class.
Going over shots and story sequence with the producer, technical director, and camera team on the cooking show adaptation "Taste: China."
Lincoln Hiatt has been an 12x guest lecturer at the LMU film school, exposing the process of making reality competition shows and encouraging free thought, conscious ethical choices and media literacy.
Kevin Hodder gives expert instruction on challenge development for "Star Soldier."
The Major, our Chinese military advisor for "Star Soldier," was an excellent fellow. Translation could be difficult however when discussing helicopters and aircraft carriers.
Cutting an episode of Chinese Reality Doc "True Love Boot Camp" in Mandarin proved to be a huge but ultimately very rewarding challenge.
Lighting Cameraman Marcus Bossdorf brings tremendous knowlege and a patient approach to every demanding production. His lighting designs sometimes have to adapt to very difficult sets and rather tight spaces.
This 360º set with high walls and a suspended marquee for BODY AND BRAIN created serious lighting challenges.
The producers at SBT in Brasil were so eager to make their "Solitary" that they didn't wait for the bible before building the set and planning their production. When we arrived to oversee the production, it took some fancy footwork to get the show underway!
We adapted UNAN1MOUS for Russia as WHO DOESN'T WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? It was fascinating to take show based on consensus and produce it in an authoritarian culture. The results were eye-opening.