WHAT’S YOUR MYERS-BRIGGS PERSONALITY TYPE?

“The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) is the best known and most trusted personality assessment in the world. It’s helped develop effective work teams, build stronger families, and create successful careers. The MBTI assessment improves quality of life for you and your organization. Giving you this personalized way to take the assessment fulfills our mission: bringing lives ‘closer to our heart’s desire’.”

This descriptor is from the home page of the Myers-Briggs Foundation—an organization that furthers the 1940’s work of psychologists Katharine Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs-Myers, who furthered Carl Jung’s theory. They categorized people into four principal psychological functions by which humans experience the world—sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking—and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time.

Sounds familiar… I took this personality test a few years ago and jotted the score in my notebook. Hmmm… might make a good blog topic so I’ll take it again and compare to the old score… lemme take another look at what this thing’s all about.

Myers & Briggs developed an “introspective, self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences and typing how people perceive the world and make decisions”.

Paraphrasing from Wikepedia (this is not-so-exciting stuff—promise it’ll get livelier), “Carl Jung’s typology theories postulated a sequence of 4 cognitive functions (thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition), each having 1 of 2 polar orientations (extraversion or introversion), giving a total of 8 dominant functions. The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by Jung understandable and useful in people’s lives.” I hope so because this is a pretty wordy explanation.

The theory’s essence is that seemingly random variation in behaviors is actually quite orderly and consistent, due to basic differences in the ways individuals use their perception and judgment.

Wiki goes on “Perception involves ways of becoming aware of things, people, happenings, or ideas. Judgment involves ways of coming to conclusions about what’s been perceived. If people differ systematically in what they perceive, and in how they reach conclusions, then it is only reasonable for them to differ correspondingly in their interests, reactions, values, motivations, and skills.”

Okay. Starting to make sense to me. Tell me more about these 8 functions.

“In developing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the aim was to make the insights of type theory accessible to individuals and groups. They addressed 2 related goals in the developments and application of the MBTI instrument:

  1. The identification of basic preferences of each of the 4 dichotomies specified or implicit in Jung’s theory.
  2. The identification and description of the 16 distinctive personality types that result from the interactions among the preferences.”

Whoa. 16? Thought there was 8? Not following the math.

“Stick with us,” they said. “We evolved — 4X4=16.”

Huh?

“We took Jung’s base and turned it into 4 questions:

  1. What’s your favorite world? — Do you prefer to focus on the outer world, or on your own inner world? This is called Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I).
  2. How do you absorb information? — Do you prefer to focus on the basic information you take in, or do you prefer to interpret and add meaning? This is called Sensing (S) or Intuition (N).
  3. How do you make decisions? —  When making decisions, do you prefer to first look at logic and consistency, or first look at the people and special circumstances? This is called Thinking (T) or Feeling (F).
  4. How do you structure? — In dealing with the outside world, do you prefer to get things decided, or do you prefer to stay open to new information and options? This is called Judging (J) or Perceiving (P).

When you decide on your preference in each category, you have your own personality type, which is expressed as a 4-letter code. The 16 personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument are listed here as they are often shown in what is called a “type table”. Casually, they’re grouped into 4 personalities:

Analysts

INTJ — Architect —  Imaginative & strategic thinkers with a plan for everything.

INTP — Logician — Innovative inventors with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge.

ENTJ — Commander — Bold, imaginative, and strong-willed leaders who will find or make a way.

ENTP — Debater — Smart and curious thinkers who cannot resist an intellectual challenge.

Diplomats

INFJ — Advocates — Quiet and mystical, yet very inspiring and tireless idealists.

INFP — Mediator — Poetic, kind, and altruistic, always eager to help a good cause.

ENFJ — Protagonist — Charismatic and inspiring leaders who are able to mesmerize followers.

ENFP — Campaigner — Eager, creative, and socially free-spirits who always find a way to smile.

Sentinals

ISTJ — Logicistian — Practical and fact minded individuals who’s integrity cannot be doubted.

ISFJ — Defender — Very dedicated and warm protectors, always ready to protect loved ones.

ESTJ — Executive — Excellent administrators, unsurpassed at managing things and people.

ESFJ — Consul — Extraordinarily caring, social and popular people, always ready to help.

Explorers

ISTP — Virtuoso — Bold and masterful experimenters, handy with all kinds of tools.

ISFP — Adventurer — Flexible and charming artists, always wanting to explore or experience something new.

ESTP — Entrepreneur — Smart, energetic, and highly perceptive people who truly enjoy living on the edge.

ESFP — Entertainer — Spontaneous, enthusiastic, and energetic people; life is never boring around them.

Interesting, I thought. I’ll take the test again and show DyingWords followers what makes me tick. So, I googled around and found 3 different FREE approaches to the M-B test. I took them all:

  1. Humanetrics — http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
  2. My Personality Test — http://www.my-personality-test.com/personality-type/?gclid=CM2N_4CetsgCFQhsfgodXiEGjw
  3. Truity Type Finder — http://www.truity.com/test/type-finder-research-edition

I also checked the Myers-Briggs site at http://www.myersbriggs.org/ but they want $150 to sign-in, although it comes with an hour of shrink time if anyone’s interested.

So, how’d I make out?

INTJ — Every frikkin’ time, including the one I did a few years ago.

How accurate is it? You be the judge. Here’s my INTJ psychological diagnosis from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:

The INTJ personality type is the Introverted Intuition with Extraverted Thinking type. Individuals that exhibit the INTJ personality type are knowledgeable, inventive, and theoretical, whether they’re working on long-term personal goals or creative projects in their professions. They are “big-picture” thinkers, creating constructive ambitions and planning for them accordingly. Myers-Briggs test INTJ types hold a clear idea of what they would like to accomplish in their future, and they use that vision as motivation to complete all of the necessary steps to obtain their dreams. This dedication to their visions and their ability to find ways to achieve them make INTJ types high-functioning employees:

  • Their looking-towards-the-future mentality helps them to create original and inspiring ideas for companies, as well as a well-thought-out plans for achieving these goals.
  • Value the intellectual ability of themselves and those of others, and place a high importance on it.
  • Can be adamant and commanding when the professional environment requires a certain level of authority.
  • Because of their ability to think long-term, they are often placed in (or place themselves in) authoritative positions in business and groups.
  • Quick to find solutions to challenges, whether that requires basing their solutions on pre-conceived knowledge or finding new information to base their decisions off of.
  • Can relate newly gathered information to the bigger picture.
  • Enjoy complicated problems, utilizing both book and street smarts (logical and hypothetical ideas) to find solutions.

They’re Strong Planners With Great Follow-Through

INTJ personality types are long-term goal-setters, creating plans to bring their goals to completion, and then following this plan using thought-out approaches and procedures devised by the INTJ. They are self-reliant, individualistic, and self-secure. INTJ personality types have a large amount of faith in their own competence and intelligence, even if others openly disagree or the opposite proves true. This also makes Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-assessed INTJ types their own worst critics, as they hold themselves to the highest standards. They dislike turbulence, perplexity, clutter, and when others waste their time and/or energy on something unimportant. This MBTI type is also succinct, analytical, discerning, and definitive.

In their personal lives, Myers-Briggs test INTJ types exhibit many of the same behaviors that they do in their professional lives. They expect competence from their peers and are more than willing to share their intelligence or ideas with those around them. Occasionally, INTJ personality types may find it difficult to hold their own in social situations, whether that is due to their actions or their opinions. To others, MBTI Assessment  Test -assessed INTJ types seem set in their ways or opinions because of their high respect for themselves, but oftentimes reality is just the opposite, with the INTJ type taking in new tidbits of information at all times, evaluating their own opinions and ideas accordingly. They are also often seen as a tad distant, closed off from others emotionally but not intellectually.

Sometimes INTJ Types Are Too Confident

This distance associated with this MBTI test-assessed personality type can occasionally progress to the point of negativity. INTJ types can close themselves off so much that they stop revealing what they are thinking/how they are coming to certain conclusions, which can make it seem as though they are simply rushing through a task. They can often do just that—jumping to underdeveloped endings without considering all new or present information. This flaw can also cause Myers-Briggs test assessed INTJ types to overlook important data and facts necessary to achieve their goals.

Their high level of competence coupled with their big-picture way of thinking can sometimes cause problems for this Myers-Briggs type. Because so many of their ideas are long-term, INTJ type ideas can occasionally lack the ability to fully come to fruition.

In their relationships with others, MBTI Test-assessed INTJ Personality Types may come off as judgmental, especially to those who aren’t as openly enthusiastic about the INTJ types ideas or intelligence. If they feel that others are not viewing them as highly as they view themselves, there is also a chance that they will not necessarily provide the level of feedback that that individual may need. However, by concentrating on developing their Sensing and Feeling, the INTJ type may fashion more intimate connections with their peers, spending less time in their heads and more time engaging with the world around them.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator INTJ personality type uses their big-picture thinking along with their logical problem-solving skills to succeed in a variety of occupations, usually those requiring scientific reasoning/understanding and those that involve building or creating something scientifically tangible. For these reasons, Myers-Briggs Test assessed INTJ types often find themselves choosing careers such as plant scientist, engineer, medical scientist, internist, or architect. MBTI test INTJ types also find themselves leaning towards those professions that require them to hold an authoritative position or a leadership role, such as a management consultant or a top executive.

To be successful in these problem-solving careers, Myers-Briggs test INTJ types must learn to consider short-term goals and opportunities as well as their already over-arching, long-term goals. This can include immediate priorities, career choices that the INTJ values but may not consider rational, and present values that INTJ type may be neglecting in favor of their long-term vision. Creating immediate and long-reaching goals for yourself can help you level your thinking and focus more on the moment.

Furthermore, this MBTI personality type may have a hard time dealing with sudden life changes or events. By allowing yourself time to think about immediate goals and surprising situations without focusing solely on the long-term outcome, you can be ready for unforeseen circumstances that may come their way.

One of the most important strategies that the Myers Briggs Type Indicator test INTJ type can implement to be successful in the workplace is to open themselves up to new people, new experiences, and new ideas. If you find yourself closed off or antisocial in the work environment, slowly opening yourself to other networks and creating personal relationships with those around you can help you become a more well-rounded employee.

How accurate is this?

Actually, it makes me look like a bit of an asshole. Far from perfect. A bit of a get-er-dun prima-donna when, in fact, my biggest criticism over the years is that I’m too nice of a guy for my own good. Anyway, it was a good mental exercise which made me think for awhile, and I got a kick outa being matched with notable characters with the same personality. Factual ones were Rudy Giuliani (Good Gawd), John F. Kennedy, and Hannibal— leader of the Carthaginians. Fictional characters were the protagonist and antagonist in Silence Of The Lambs, Clarise Starling and…. yeah — Hannibal Lector.

So, I challenge you. You can have a FREE psychological analysis just like mine. Go ahead and take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Test at:

At very least, it’s a buncha fun. C’mon DyingWords group. Take the test ‘n tell us who you are!

PROPHETIC WORDS FROM BOB DYLAN

You may hate his nasal voice, but it’s impossible to deny Bob Dylan is one of our greatest songwriters, poets, and balladeers ever to hit the folk and pop music stage. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, Dylan (now 81) has been an icon for over sixty years and he’s sold above 125 million records—plus winning a Nobel Prize. Three of his best-known songs are Like a Rolling Stone, Blowin’ in the Wind, and The Times They are a Changin’. All have prophetic words from Bob Dylan.

The Times They are a Changin’ is timeless work. Think about the times changin’ from 1964, when Bob Dylan recorded the song, to 2022 today. Computers and the internet—soon to be the metaverse. Space flight and Mars sight. Smart phones. Amazon. Blockbuster to Netflix. Facebook and TikTok. Environmental adjustment. (I don’t say climate change or global warming because for the past 10,000 years our globe’s climate has been changing and warming.) Electric, driverless vehicles. Crazy political polarization. Wokeism. A pandemic. A new war (now in the Ukraine). And so much more change.

Bob Dylan’s words, written in 1964, are just as relevant today as they were back in the sixties. I had a life moment, recently, where I went on a long, reflective walk and thought about Dylan’s The Times They Are a Changin’ and re-read the lyrics and changed my worldview. And I thought I’d share Bob Dylan’s prophetic words with you on DyingWords along with a young lady’s cover of Dylan’s masterpiece. Reina del Cid is an exceptionally talented musician who I really admire. Her natural voice and effortless strings are so soothing.

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
And you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’

Listen to Reina del Cid’s Bob Dylan cover 

Listen to Bob Dylan’s Original Release

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’

Yes, the times are a-changin’

THE FUTURISTIC FILM INDUSTRY

The future is coming fast—especially in the film industry.  Some of it’s already here. Augmented and virtual reality. CGIs. Digital recreation. Algorithmic editing. Edge computing. 5G/6G networks. Cloned voices. Scanned actors. Non-real celebrities. Drones. Artificially intelligent screenwriting. Remote filmmaking. 3D printed sets. 3D previsualization. Real-time rendering. Sound and light tech breakthroughs. DJI Ronin 4D 6K condensed cinematic lenses. Micro cameras. Avatars & holograms. Blockchain, crypto & NFTs. The Internet of Things (IoT). And, of course, the Metaverse.

The global film industry is huge. It’s astoundingly enormous, and it’s growing massively. According to a study by Globe Newswire, the worldwide film industry grew from $271.83 billion (US) in March 2021 to $325.06 billion in March 2022. That’s a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.4% indicating in another four years, 2026, the film-making world will generate 479.63 billion dollars. By the end of this decade, it could be worth a trillion.

If you’re a regular DyingWords follower, you might’ve noticed I haven’t published a book in nearly two years. That’s because I’m immersed in the film industry—studying screenwriting, producing film content under my new company Twenty-Second Century Entertainment (22 ENT), and generally learning what this business is about. I’ve also done on-camera work as a crime and forensic resource in non-scripted documentaries that flowed from blog posts I’ve created. Plus, I’ve made some great filmmaking friends who are teaching this old dog new tricks.

Before I expand on future film technology, I’ll give you a snapshot of what I’ve got on the go. My eight-part Based-On-True-Crime book series is contractually optioned by a producer who has it before a major film company. If this gets “Green Lit”, we have a total of thirty episodes loglined under the working title Occam’s Razor. My hardboiled, private detective storytelling concept called City Of Danger is a twenty-four-part series with a right-of-first-refusal agreement through a leading netstreamer. (See my webpage for City Of Danger—scheduled for 2024). The Fatal Shot is a film production “treatment” I wrote which is being “shopped around”, and I’m collaborating with a long-time colleague on a very interesting screen project titled Lightning Man that I believe has excellent film potential.

Enough of my BS. Let’s look at the futuristic film industry.

Everyone’s talking about the metaverse. Especially Mark Zuckerberg who rebranded Facebook into Meta. He’s betting big that this is Internet 3.0 and, from what I know, I’m sure he’s right even though he can’t get Apple to form a joint venture.

The term metaverse isn’t new. It’s been around three decades and was once known as cyberspace. Although the metaverse is already here and in its infancy or at an inflection point, it’s a hard concept to wrap your head around. Maybe it’s best to let Mr. Zuckerberg explain:

“The “metaverse” is a set of virtual spaces where you can create and explore with other people who aren’t in the same physical space as you. You’ll be able to hang out with friends, work, play, learn, shop, create and more. It’s not necessarily about spending more time online — it’s about making the time you do spend online more meaningful. The metaverse isn’t a single product one company can build alone. Just like the internet, the metaverse exists whether Facebook is there or not. And it won’t be built overnight. Many of these products will only be fully realized in the next 10-15 years. While that’s frustrating for those of us eager to dive right in, it gives us time to ask the difficult questions about how they should be built.”

Zuckerberg says the metaverse is the mobile web’s successor. First there was Internet 1.0 which was static. You could surf the pages and send emails on a desktop. Internet 2.0—where we’re at now—is mobile. It’s smartphone streaming and TikToking. If you want to call the metaverse Internet 3.0, then you need to use compatible words like immersive, interoperable, and integrated. It’s a world of shared virtual experience that can happen at home, on the go, and wherever you are with a connected device.

What the metaverse holds for the film industry is not so much technical advances in production. It’s deliverability and viewer experience. The metaverse won’t be the place you’ll be watching a movie. It’s where you’ll be fully interacting with your five senses—sight, sound, small, taste, and feel. It’ll be like you’re right there in the middle of the set.

If you’re interested in learning more about the metaverse, here are three resources I recommend:

The Metaverse: And How it Wil Revolutionize Everything —Book by Matthew Ball

Value Creation in the Metaverse — 76-page pdf by McKinsey & Company

What is the Metaverse? — Article at Government Technology

There are two evolving technologies that’ll give you that immersed feeling. One is augmented reality (AR). The other is virtual reality (VR). There’s a big difference between the two immersive platforms.

Augmented reality is enhancing, or augmenting, real events with computerization. AR morphs the mundane, physical world into a colorful, visual place by projecting visual images and characters into an existing framework. It adds to the user’s real-life experience.

Virtual reality creates a world that doesn’t exist and makes it seem very, very real. Think the movie Avatar. VR also incorporates sensory-improving devices like goggles, helmets, headsets, and suits.

You could say computer-generated imagery, or CGIs, is old technology and not something futuristic. You’d be wrong. Advancements in CGI development are nothing short of breathtaking. The CGIs five years from now will make today’s stuff look like a preschooler’s drawing.

Technology’s ability to recreate faces, bodies, and even dialogue is dramatically improving. It’s progressing to the point where it’ll be possible to make an exact replica of just about anyone. Would you like to meet a completely believable Elvis Presley? How about Marilyn Monroe?

Speaking of Elvis and Marilyn, cloned voices are becoming the thing. Computerized synthetization takes old audio of past people and recreates their voices into a life-like state. This process will use artificial intelligence (AI) to build a smoky Marilyn or a crooning Elvis and respond to printed dialogue. It like the current AI text-to-speech but on steroids.

We can’t talk about futuristic filmmaking without bringing up artificial intelligence. AI is moving ahead at lightning speed and it’s bringing the film industry with it. I’m fascinated with AI developments. But I’m also a bit fearful. Here’s a DyingWords post I wrote a while back titled Helpful or Homicidal — How Dangerous is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

One thing about AI I’m really looking forward to in the film industry is this: Artificially Intelligent Screenwriting. If you’ve ever written, or have tried to write, a screenplay, then you appreciate how much work and effort goes into it, never mind the brain drain of creating unique content.

Recently, researchers at New York University built an artificial intelligence screenwriting program. They called it Benjamin who, among other things, wrote an original soundtrack for its movie after being programmed with 30,000 songs in its data input drive. Can you imagine the 2025 Academy Awards, “And the Oscars for best screenplay and soundtrack goes to… Benjamin the Bot.”

AI isn’t just real in script and score writing. Virtual actors and non-real celebrities are on the way in. It’ll soon be possible to select the movie cast and digitally scan them, then recreate their entire actions throughout the film without them being physically present. It’s well within the realm of possibility to have a virtual Ryan Reynolds or Anne Hathaway act their parts while the flesh and blood realities sit at home. After being paid a substantial sum for licensing their images, of course.

Turning real people into realistic avatars or digital images of themselves is a current technology. Take a look at the leading lady on my City Of Danger promo poster. That’s a real person (a stunningly attractive and stylish, high-status lady, by the way) who was scanned and run through a NextGen Pixlr filter. The plan for City Of Danger is to digitize the cast and set them loose in virtual reality following the human-written episodic scripts translated by AI. Fun stuff!

Drones are fun stuff, too. What used to be aerial filmed with helicopters and airplanes is now drone territory. Drones are far cheaper and much safer. With highly sophisticated controls and cameras, filming by drones will mostly replace piloted vehicles. Take a look at this drone footage of the new Vancouver Island Film Studios, twenty minutes north of my place: https://youtu.be/aTsyRrROx34

Remote filmmaking will put a big dent into on-site producing. With huge advances in film technology, internet sharing, and cost-cutting, more and more productions will happen on sound stages like the six built at Vancouver Island Film Studios. It’s realistic that a director—yes, a real person—will do their work remotely. Instead of fighting traffic and flight delays, a filmmaker will be able to do their job sitting on a yacht in the Maldives and direct their work in the metaverse.

3D printed sets are soon to be here, if not right now. It’s going to be far more efficient to create film set artifacts rather than source them. Those 3D objects can also be scanned and set into virtual reality situations.

3D filming has come a long way since the days audiences sat watching The Power Of Love back in 1922 and wearing those goofy glasses. Now, we have up-close 3D on the laptops and soon to be glasses-free for the big screen. But the big wait for is 4D filming, and it’s a promise to come through VR in the metaverse. Instead of only seeing height, width, and length, you’ll experience depth. You’ll be inside the picture—on the inside looking out at the 3D world.

There are massive changes coming in cameras, sound recording, and lighting effects. Have you seen Top Gun Maverick? That is amazing work, and that’s just the next step in futuristic filmmaking. And you know what? Very little was done through CGIs. It’s just super sophisticated camera, sound, and lighting effects. Here’s how they did it: https://www.indiewire.com/2022/06/top-gun-maverick-making-of-cockpit-1234729694/

Top Gun Maverick used a Sony Rialto Camera Extension System. Yes, it’s expensive but so were renting the jets at over $11,000 per flying hour. More reasonable in my upcoming league is the no-longer-futuristic DJI Ronin 4D $-Axis 6K Cinematic Camera that recently came online at $9,000.00, and that’s just for the lens. Think about it—a 4D, 6,000-pixel digital camera. There isn’t a 6K monitor yet made, but I bet it’s on its way.

Micro cameras have amazing potential. The future is wide open in melding nanotechnology with filmmaking. I can’t imagine what’s happening at the molecular level.

I can imagine, however, what’s happening in the post-production level. It’s not just screenwriting, casting, set building, and cinematography that takes time and money. Editing is a huge time suck in the filmmaking process. What’s just arriving is algorithmic film editing. This is AI software that thinks through the film data and makes automatic jump cuts at precisely the right moment.

Have you heard of edge computing? I hadn’t until I began investigating the futuristic film industry. Edge computing is capturing data at its source and not having to upload it to a server for processing. That eliminates having to use an expensive and laggy “middle-man” like a cloud or a mechanical server. Using edge computing to harness and develop digital data speeds up processing time and reduces costs.

Hologram displays are in their crude evolutionary form today. That’s going to change soon, and holograms are part of the new, end-product “dimensional delivery”. By dimensional delivery, I mean the 4D technology where you’ll be able to watch a digitized hologram of your show. It will be like watching a completely realistic stage play, and you’ll have the option of joining in.

“Joining in” is a fascinating film delivery concept. In the future, algorithms will track your viewing habits/choices and will give you the option of personalizing your selection. You can make yourself into an avatar and can substitute your avatar for a cast member. On the international stage, you can change your race, gender, and language.

All this talk of high-density technology needs delivery infrastructure makeover. Internet providers today don’t have the speed or capacity to process and send out 5K resolution and totally digitized, virtual reality entertainment. But that’s changing, too, with 5G.

5G is the 5th generation wireless mobile network. It’s already happening and 6G is planned. To serve the metaverse, massively higher, multi-Gbps and ultra-low latency is crucial. The 5 and 6G networks will deliver the films of the future that today’s 4G system can’t.

One more film-world reality is money. Movies cost a lot of money to make. I’m told a show like Occam’s Razor typically budgets at around $50,000 per edited minute of film. Doing the math, a 60-minute episode would cost $3 million, give or take a fudge factor. So, a 10-episode season would cost the film’s financier around $30 million. To me, that’s a lot of coin—a lot of coin that can be saved through emerging technology.

Future technology will significantly reduce time and expenses in film making. Payment methods are changing, too. Blockchain will keep a digital trail and funds will commonly exchange in crypto currency. Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) will probably be part of the package, though they’re going through a reevaluation at the moment.

I’m a newbie to the film industry, but everyone working in the business is a newbie to what’s coming at us from the future. My niche is making content—inventing and telling stories through characters, plots, and dialogues. But to make decent (meaning saleable) content, I must be aware of how the overall film production and delivery systems work. That’s what the past two years have been about.

City Of Danger seems to be saleable content. At least one film producer at a name-brand netstreamer thinks so. Realistically, the show is a few years away—2024 at the earliest—because the technology for what we want to portray isn’t perfected yet. Our plan is to screenwrite the 24 episodes (underway) and have it ready to be digitally produced in virtual reality by scanning the actors, turning them into avatars, and showing them as you see Susan Silverii who graces the promo poster. This should cut production costs to maybe half of today’s typical rates of filming a live actor and on-location series like Occam’s Razor.

Wish us luck. Or, as they say in theatrics, “Break a leg”.