DreamWorks

DreamWorks is a high- quality animation company that provides entertainment, including CG animated featured films, television specials and series, and live entertainment properties.  This animation company provides high-quality animation films, which are all produced in 3D for many different languages all over the world.  DreamWorks has had some of the world’s greatest computer animator’s over the years. DreamWorks has really impressed their viewers by providing such great quality and high tech films. DreamWorks animation has been named one of the “100 best companies to work for” by Fortune magazine for the past 5 consecutive years.  In 2013 Dream Works was ranked number 12 on this list, which was included in Fortune magazine.  Some of the most famous and well-known movies that Dream Works has released have been Shrek, Madagascar, Kung fu Panda, and Puss and Boots. 

            Recently Dream Works has been in the discussion with 20^th Century Fox to handle their international release of its movies.  Dream Works may also strike a new pact with Sony Pictures but has not authorized this publicly yet.  It typically takes many months to coordinate the release of an animated film.  The release of an animated film typically takes so long because of the genre it attracts with a variety of promotional and merchandise partners.  Some of the other distribution companies that Dream Works is currently talking to besides Sony would be Warner Bros, Universal, and Disney.  Dream Works might also cut a deal with Fox to handle the release of the international release of its movies.  Dream Works would want Sony to only distribute them domestically.  Dream Works had hired former Disney distributor Chick Viane this past October to advise the studio on its options.

         Because of Sony’s lack of consistency in the box office with its own division, Sony could definitely use a boast from Dream Works movies.  The partnership between Dream Works and Paramount pictures was forged and largely fruitful from benefiting from a few animated pictures that they had created together. Both companies had clashed over terms of contract renewal.  Paramount pictures now makes 8% of revenues generated by Dream Works movies, which are released, below the industry average.  Paramount Pictures have currently said that it would only renew a contract with Dream Works if they were to renew on a more favorable and profitable contract.  

Public Speakers That Inspire Me

                                     

Shawn Achor is not only the CEO of Good Think Inc, where he researches and teaches about positive psychology, but he is always a great public speaker who has inspired me and many other people as well.  Shawn Achor has inspired me by not only possessing a personality to connect with his audience but also having the passion and purpose to be able to go above and beyond what a public speaker should be. To be a great public speaker you must find a way to connect with your audience.  For Shawn, this connection would have been through story telling and his sense of humor. In Shawn’s case this was shown in one of his speeches called “what is the happy secret to better work.” During Shawns speech at TED.com Shawn tells a personal story about when he accidentally broke his sisters leg.  Shawn adds some fictional humor to his story in order to make it more interesting and connect with his audience.   Shawn keeps his audience interested by adding sarcastic elements that has to do with computers and graphs, which is very humorous and entertaining for this specific type of audience since they are all business and computer oriented people who can all relate to what he is saying. Shawn uses a lot of eye contact as well as confidence that shows when he speaks.  People are drawn to speakers that show a lot emotion, which Shawn shows in his speech.  

Shawn has inspired me during his speech about happiness and success by the way he was able to present his knowledge on this subject as well the way he could incorporate humor into his presentation to make it interesting and capture the attention of his audience.  To become a great public speaker your main objective is to find a way to connect with your audience and have enough knowledge as well as confidence about your subject in order to be able to show your audience that you are knowledgeable about what you are talking about.  By following these guidelines in your public speaking ability you will be able to inspire others just as Shawn Achor has done for me.