Dan S. Watanabe
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- School: Los Angeles Valley College
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- Department: Media Arts
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5800 Fulton Ave
Valley Glen, CA - 91401 - Dates at Los Angeles Valley College: May 2012 - July 2020
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I took Prof. Watanabe for Spring 2020. I wasn't actually a fan of writing so I was kinda worried but he really made it easier. Most parts of the sem was spent mainly on assignments that help lead you up to screenplay. It's about 25 pages but the work he gives the entire sem really help you out with it, so it wasn't so hard, just quite time consuming.
Biography
Los Angeles Valley College - Media Arts
Instructor and guest lecturer on all things entertainment in the LA Region.
Dan
Watanabe
North Hollywood, California
Following nearly twenty years in the entertainment industry, I am now firmly ensconced in academia, with the goal of providing students with the training necessary to have a career in digital media of all kinds.
I have just finished a five-year stint as the "deputy sector navigator" (meaning someone who bridges employers with education) as part of the "Doing What Matters" initiative. My particular focus was on Digital Media (including entertainment) handling the 19 community colleges and multiple high schools in the LA region. The purpose of the grant is to build career pathways from K-12 into the community colleges; then from the community colleges into four-year institutions; culminating in providing jobs skills for students to enter the workforce. It also provides a path for incumbent workers to return to education to "skill up" to achieve higher wages or career changes. During the five years of the grant, we trained over 5,700 students, 1,000 faculty members, 1,000 incumbent workers and have worked with over 100 industry partners.
Additionally, I teach a variety of classes at LA Valley College, including screenwriting, the production process and the history of television. Since September 2013, I also teach in the television studies department at Loyola Marymount University.
For sixteen years I worked at the company ultimately known as FremantleMedia, handling "current programming" duties on a number of first run syndication television series (including BAYWATCH), movies of the week, and reality/game shows.
In September, 2017, I finally received my MFA (at my age!) in Digital Cinema Production. Fun times for a former front office type.
"If you have to live from hand to mouth, you'd better be ambidextrous." Thornton Wilder through Ernest Lehman.
Experience
Los Angeles Valley College
Grant Director
Served as director for two grants: From 2012-2013, served as Director for IDEAS (Institute for Development of Entertainment Arts and Studies), a Responsive Training Fund Regional Center providing direct incumbent craftspeople training in a variety of industry-recognized software programs including Photoshop, Maya and ProTools.
2010 - 2012, ran the Entertainment Industry Training Collaborative (EITC), a Responsive Training Fund of the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. This short term grant provided over 2,000 entertainment industry incumbent craftspeople with funds for high technology skills training.
Education
聖マリア学院大学
high school
diploma
National University
MFA
Digial Cinema
Received MFA in Digital CInema on September 16, 2017
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