Hi! I’m Annalise. My background is in strategic communications with a focus on advertising and a minor in psychology, and a lot of my work sits at the intersection of media, design, and audience behavior. I want to go to graduate school but currently just doing research that interests me. my master’s thesis would center around film, but from a different angle, I’m researching how science fiction films shape public understanding of future technologies, space exploration, and humanity’s place in the universe. I’m especially interested in how films like Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and other speculative cinema influence the way people think about scientific progress, communication, and even existential ideas like the Kardashev Scale. I look at film not just as entertainment, but as a form of cultural messaging that can shape perception, aspiration, and public imagination.
Interesting. I’ve never heard of the Kardashev Scale before. Have you seen Project Hail Mary? I listened to the audio book first and loved it. (Great narrator) I thought the film was fabulous. I would definitely see it again in a theater.
Lithuania is one stopt out of three countries, because I'm enrolled on an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master on Impact Entrepreneurship. Each semester develops in a different university, and ISM in Lithuania is the second one.
As these are business schools, I'm getting to study the business side of independent cinema. However, I don't want to lose contact with other perspectives of cinema, which makes your work very interesting for me.
That’s so cool! I appreciate the blended approach between art and business. To have success in the industry, you need both. Plus, the travel aspect must really widen your view about global cinema. It sounds fascinating.
I'm Martha, I'm a film producer from Colombia currently studying a master degree in Lithuania and focusing my research on the gap between films and audiences on the independent latin american cinema. I got here because of the coment that made you famous. I'm really looking forward to read your research and to learn more about what you do. 😊
Hi Alexis! I'm Karine, and I'm an almost 30 year animation industry veteran. I've spent most of my career in storyboards, and I'm currently directing animated shows and teaching storyboarding. Given that I work in TV animation, a lot of the actual editing choices are done early in the process, at the end of the storyboarding stage and before going into production, and there is a final animation editing pass in post-production as well.
This means I have little knowledge of how things are done in live action and I am eager to learn. I came here because of the Patton Oswalt clip and saw your comment. I'm also a female storyboard artist and director, and there are really not a whole lot of us, so I do feel a certain measure of empowerment hearing that it's because of women's skills that we have the stories we all love. Looking forward to reading!
That’s so cool. I love learning about the animation process. I’ve directed a few (corporate) voice over sessions. It’s pretty fun. I’m a communications coach now (public speaking, storytelling, etc.) and have deep appreciation for voice over artists. The human voice is such a powerful tool. As I often tell clients, “no one has a bad time around a good storyteller.”
This is so cool. I don’t know a lot about the animation process. I’m familiar with story boarding but not directing tv animation. Do you approve the storyboards? What are you responsible for? This is fascinating to me. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, one of the biggest parts of my job is giving my storyboard artists the episode brief, and then reviewing and annotating their rough storyboards for all the aspects of storytelling - staging, framing, cutting, acting, narrative choices - and sending them revisions. They then deliver clean boards, often roughly timed with the recorded dialogue. I’ll review those boards again for final touches, then send them to my animatic editor to properly time and add sound effects on top of the dialogue. For TV, we usually have to fit in a set amount of time for broadcast. So editing is not so much about searching for the best shot out of a bunch of footage, it’s more about punching up and tightening the story through the shots that have been drawn, within a definite total number of frames.
I also participate in script reviews, I brief and review designs, animation, compositing, music composition and sound mixing; I’m also in the voice recording sessions, usually working with a voice director.
And I’m storyboarding on my current show.
Thanks for asking! If you have any questions I love talking shop; I’m so happy to be able to read your substack and learn from you!
Hi Alexis, I’m Vicky! I work in healthcare and have no experience or history in the world of film making😂 However, I love film,tv and everything related and I enjoy learning so here I am. Looking forward to learning more about your dissertation ☺️
Hi Vicky. I have no experience in health care, and I'm glad you're here. Learning about film and TV is pretty fun, I think. It makes you appreciate the art form on another level. 🙂
Hi! I’m Annalise. My background is in strategic communications with a focus on advertising and a minor in psychology, and a lot of my work sits at the intersection of media, design, and audience behavior. I want to go to graduate school but currently just doing research that interests me. my master’s thesis would center around film, but from a different angle, I’m researching how science fiction films shape public understanding of future technologies, space exploration, and humanity’s place in the universe. I’m especially interested in how films like Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and other speculative cinema influence the way people think about scientific progress, communication, and even existential ideas like the Kardashev Scale. I look at film not just as entertainment, but as a form of cultural messaging that can shape perception, aspiration, and public imagination.
Interesting. I’ve never heard of the Kardashev Scale before. Have you seen Project Hail Mary? I listened to the audio book first and loved it. (Great narrator) I thought the film was fabulous. I would definitely see it again in a theater.
Lithuania is one stopt out of three countries, because I'm enrolled on an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master on Impact Entrepreneurship. Each semester develops in a different university, and ISM in Lithuania is the second one.
As these are business schools, I'm getting to study the business side of independent cinema. However, I don't want to lose contact with other perspectives of cinema, which makes your work very interesting for me.
That’s so cool! I appreciate the blended approach between art and business. To have success in the industry, you need both. Plus, the travel aspect must really widen your view about global cinema. It sounds fascinating.
Hi Alexis!!
I'm Martha, I'm a film producer from Colombia currently studying a master degree in Lithuania and focusing my research on the gap between films and audiences on the independent latin american cinema. I got here because of the coment that made you famous. I'm really looking forward to read your research and to learn more about what you do. 😊
Hi Martha. What made you choose Lithuania for your studies?
Hi Alexis! I'm Karine, and I'm an almost 30 year animation industry veteran. I've spent most of my career in storyboards, and I'm currently directing animated shows and teaching storyboarding. Given that I work in TV animation, a lot of the actual editing choices are done early in the process, at the end of the storyboarding stage and before going into production, and there is a final animation editing pass in post-production as well.
This means I have little knowledge of how things are done in live action and I am eager to learn. I came here because of the Patton Oswalt clip and saw your comment. I'm also a female storyboard artist and director, and there are really not a whole lot of us, so I do feel a certain measure of empowerment hearing that it's because of women's skills that we have the stories we all love. Looking forward to reading!
That’s so cool. I love learning about the animation process. I’ve directed a few (corporate) voice over sessions. It’s pretty fun. I’m a communications coach now (public speaking, storytelling, etc.) and have deep appreciation for voice over artists. The human voice is such a powerful tool. As I often tell clients, “no one has a bad time around a good storyteller.”
Oh, I completely agree. Voice sessions are one of my favourite parts of the whole process.
This is so cool. I don’t know a lot about the animation process. I’m familiar with story boarding but not directing tv animation. Do you approve the storyboards? What are you responsible for? This is fascinating to me. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, one of the biggest parts of my job is giving my storyboard artists the episode brief, and then reviewing and annotating their rough storyboards for all the aspects of storytelling - staging, framing, cutting, acting, narrative choices - and sending them revisions. They then deliver clean boards, often roughly timed with the recorded dialogue. I’ll review those boards again for final touches, then send them to my animatic editor to properly time and add sound effects on top of the dialogue. For TV, we usually have to fit in a set amount of time for broadcast. So editing is not so much about searching for the best shot out of a bunch of footage, it’s more about punching up and tightening the story through the shots that have been drawn, within a definite total number of frames.
I also participate in script reviews, I brief and review designs, animation, compositing, music composition and sound mixing; I’m also in the voice recording sessions, usually working with a voice director.
And I’m storyboarding on my current show.
Thanks for asking! If you have any questions I love talking shop; I’m so happy to be able to read your substack and learn from you!
Hi Alexis, I’m Vicky! I work in healthcare and have no experience or history in the world of film making😂 However, I love film,tv and everything related and I enjoy learning so here I am. Looking forward to learning more about your dissertation ☺️
Hi Vicky. I have no experience in health care, and I'm glad you're here. Learning about film and TV is pretty fun, I think. It makes you appreciate the art form on another level. 🙂