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Robert Griffiths and Carey Dissmore - "What's a fair day in production?"

A round-table discussion of what constitutes a "fair" working day in production; does that include travel time (location arrival, or portal-to-portal) and what are a producer's obligations to crew during production, in terms of working hours related to travel safety, food et. al.

Carey Dissmore is the principle of Carey Dissmore Productions and has worked on both sides of the production equation: as a freelancer and as a producer.

Robert Griffiths is a producer/director/editor at FireDancer Productions.

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Brian Dalton - "Mr Deity"

Brian Dalton is the creator, writer, director, editor, director of photographer and composer for the popular web series ("podcast") Mr Deity. The first episode, Mr Deity and the Evil was written after the Tsunami in January of 2005. Although he tried to find other actors to take the roles of Mr Deity, and Larry no-one wanted any part of the controversial topic. Ultimately Brian took the role of Mr Deity and his long-time associate Jimbo Marshall took on the role of Larry. The small cast is rounded out by Sean Douglas as "Jesse/Jesus" and Amy Rohren as "Lucifer/Lucy".

Episodes 1-3 went up in January 2007, and since then there have been over 5 million views of the first ten episodes. They are currently negotiating future web episodes and a feature film deal may be "in the works".

Brian Dalton's career goes back 25 years and encompasses virtually every aspect of music, film and the graphic arts. As a musician, he studied classical guitar for five years and wen on to teach himself piano, bass, drums and synthesizer programming. By the early 80's he was performing in various rock bands as a lead guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist and was playing on the "Sunset Strip" by the time he was fourteen.

In 1984, Brian and his partner, Paul Steenhooek, were signed to a recording contract with Embryo Records. He recorded and performed across the US to crowds up to 80,000 people at the Rose Bowl. Brian retired from performing live music in 1996.

Brian is a published composer and has written, performed, arranged and produced music on albums for Embryo Music, N-JEN Record, Creative Music Entertainment and Lazy Eye Pictures.

From the late 1980's he focused on the visual arts and launched The Dalton Group, an LA-based graphic design firm that has done work for various Fortune 500 companies including Disney,

Cap Cities and Clear Cannel Radio. His graphics have been seen on everything from Billboards for KOGO Radio and the San Diego Padres, to tiny packages designed for the French cosmetics company, Visage Beauté.

In 2000 Brian put his love of writing, music and the visual arts to use making movies. His first movie, Killing the Dream is an 83 minute mocumentary about two less-than-brilliant idealists who are trying to break into the music business. The movie received acclaim at various festivals across the US, as well as winning the Grand Jury Award at the 2003 Temecula International Film Festival and a special director's award at the 2003 Ojai Film Festival. As well as writing and directing Killing the Dream, Brian was also Cinematographer, Editor and Composer.

He has since written and directed a short film, which is loosely based on the life of Oscar-winning actor George Sanders, called Ennui. It premiered in September 2004 at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival.

He is currently working on three screenplays and plans to begin shooting another feature in the winter of 2005.

Brian has also worked as Cinematographer/Videographer for numerous local video production companies. He lives in Temecula, California.

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