December 2020
Film industry's high-wage jobs produces economic diversity in Florida
According to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, in 2019 the average annual wage for a film and entertainment industry professional in Florida was $84,205, exceeding the state’s average annual wage for all industries by 62.7%.
A booming film, television and digital media industry would bring high-wage jobs to the state, accelerating Florida’s economic recovery and further diversifying our economy. These jobs also come quickly to positively affect our economy sooner than other industries.
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Called an LED Volume screen, it digitizes fully immersive backgrounds in real time.
There are also only three known production studios in North America with LED Volume wraparound screens measuring over 100 feet long. The third was unveiled inside the former University Mall, now Rithm at Uptown, where commercial production company Diamond View Studios constructed a new 10,000-square foot production studio named Vū.
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How Tampa music vets Mike Mass and J.T. Brown made one of 2020’s best songs and videos
The picturesque video is of the two musicians in a vintage GTO convertible, which they had to drive back and forth from Tampa to Brandon for hours. And the serenity of the five-and-a-half-minute clip is ironic because of the harsh realities of what the lyrics say, but also because those images are matched up in a correlated documentary—made by Dylan Melcher and George Goldberg—that was released on Thanksgiving.
This month's Spotlight:
Toni Jo Peruzzi
Toni Jo Peruzzi is a Professional Freelance Make-Up Artist and Hair Stylist and has been a licensed cosmetologist for over 20 years.
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