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Student Voices of the Hill Country

Student Voices of the Hill Country: A Schreiner Student Pod Series: Season 2 – Into the Media Verse: Film Director Trivia, Favorites, and What Makes Movies Work

Welcome to Season 2 of the Student Voices of the Hill Country: A Schreiner Student Pod Series. In this series, we continue to explore the lives, views, and observations of Schreiner Students. In this Episode 1, we look at Into the Media Verse: Film Director Trivia, Favorites, and What Makes Movies Work.

Host Austin and cohosts Phoebe and Heath launch their first episode with a true/false director trivia segment, including Titanic—James Cameron; The Empire Strikes Back—Irvin Kershner; “Sinners”—Ryan Coogler, and discuss favorite films, Mission: Impossible—Fallout, The Sandlot, “Revenge of the Fifth”. They compare older directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Mel Brooks, John Ford, and newer directors, including James Gunn, J.J. Abrams, and Steven Spielberg, emphasizing that successful films depend on aligned writing, directing, producing, and crew execution, plus appropriate casting and research. The conversation critiques sequels, reboots, live-action remakes, and inconsistent adaptations, and it also examines the risks posed by writer strikes, citing examples across franchises such as Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Marvel/DC, Borderlands, Fast & Furious, Riverdale, and Stranger Things. They close by naming preferred films from selected directors, including Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Star Trek, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Key highlights:

  • Movie Directors
  • Nostalgia and Superheroes
  • Franchises Going Off Rails
  • Disney Remakes And Musicals
  • Writing From Scratch And Reboots

Other Hill Country Focused Podcasts

⁠⁠Hill Country Authors Podcast⁠⁠

⁠⁠Hill Country Artists Podcast⁠⁠

⁠⁠Texas Hill Country Podcast Network

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31 Days to More Effective Compliance Programs

One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program in Training and Communications – Compliance Training From the Movies

If there is one truism from the practices of law which translates to the practice of compliance, it is that your imagination only limits you. Marc Havener, founder, and CEO of Resonate Pictures, Inc., created a series of video shorts for a consulting company on compliance and ethics. Rather than the traditional legal approach of telling employees about the corporate policy on compliance, they wanted to tell a story about compliance through the art of movie-based storytelling that wove messaging into characters to tell a story.

I have urged compliance practitioners to bring more storytelling into their compliance messaging. If you put the employee in the shoes of the person they’re watching, they will remember it because they will see how it applies to their lives. Havener noted that the training experience would last “exponentially longer than if you just go over a written policy or show a PowerPoint.” He called it “expanding your classroom.” The next time they see George Clooney, they’re going to remember the training, the next time they watch that movie that you showed a clip from, they’re going to be reminded of the training, and so it becomes a great drift method of training.”

Three key takeaways:

  1. Storytelling is another form of communication.
  2. Movie clips in compliance training can provide useful touchstones that employees can relate to for compliance lessons.
  3. The Morgan Stanley declination gave credit for annual compliance reminders.