Where were You in '92? Author, speaker and Media Futurist Joyce Schwarz Conducted 1st New Media Workshop for DGA (Director's Guild of America) in NYC in June 1992

by Joyce Schwarz blogging at Hollywood2020.net

BACK TO THE FUTURE: seems like a lifetime ago -- and it was 19 years ago when I was asked to fly to NYC to conduct the first workshop on new media for the DGA (Director's Guild of America)  BOARD of Directors.

 

This little newsletter (above) I did back then chronicles the highlights of that fun but challenging trip.

Backstory! Because I had been writing articles on changing careers, the WGA (Writer's Guild of America) West and the DGA West had asked me to give a couple of workshops on how to make $ on the side for directors and writers who were struggling back in '92. I really think they had the idea i was going to tell their peeps how to write for corporate newsletters or how to sell cars.

INSTEAD I gathered together some CD ROMS (remember them that's what we called them back then -- of course some peeps called them CD ROMES :) and I got some videos from Philips Interactive and from other new media firms I was working with and well, PUT ON A SHOW. DGA and WGA booked me in the small theatre at the DGA building and it was a sell out -- so much so that days before they asked me to do the program a second time in the afternoon and I put it on again to a standing room only crowd. I felt not only like a new media EVANGELIST but like this was a REVIVAL crowd. And perhaps it was!  

I still have some of the videos I presented and am transferring them to DVD and digital so I may be able to link this post in the future to that exact presentation. 

BUT you get the idea -- back to the future literally! In less than 24 hours the DGA in NYC sent me a ticket to come to New York and give the workshop again to their board. 

 
Is it any wonder that I was able to sell to Harcourt Brace AP Academic Division the co-authored manuscript (See pix on upper left ) called "MULTIMEDIA: Gateway to the Next Millenium" with a preface by Brannan Bragga, creator of STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION? Sold it at Siggraph that summer -- and can you believe it's still used in colleges and universities around the globe.

In fact you can still buy it on Amazon.com at this link: http://tinyurl.com/multimediabook

SPEAKING AND PAID WORKSHOPS: For more information about booking Joyce Schwarz to speak to your organization, conference or company about FUTURE OF MEDIA or the FUTURE of whatever industry you're in -- retail, fashion, packaged goods, construction etc -- email her directly at: joyceschwarz@gmail.com

Joyce will be glad to link you to videos of her presentations including the future of DIGITAL MEDIA IN LATIN AMERICA: http://youtu.be/xZWnj5Dq__w