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Steve Stockman In Feature Film, Television, For Pros

Five Tips to Deal with Reviews and Reviewers

Every artist faces critics. And every artist faces choices about how to deal with them. Some claim to never read their reviews (Show of hands if you believe them. Nobody?) Others wallow in the bad reviews, ignoring the good. (Show of hands again– Everybody!)

Assuming that you (a) can’t stop yourself from reading your reviews and (b) don’t want to wallow, you might use these five tips to process reviews or other critique:

1) Pay attention– or not. You have the right to ignore critics. Even if you can’t stop reading … Read the rest

Steve Stockman In If you’re new to video, Video Marketing, Your Questions Answered

How to Deal with Disappointing Reviews, Part 1

I’ve been a really crap video interviewer over recent months– shooting live at events, editing and uploading to YouTube same day– with no previous experience (‘always bite off more than you can chew’ is my motto.) But here’s the question:

How do you deal with the disappointment when you get poor reviews?

–John from the UK

I was all ready to go with a long post about disappointing reviews and reviewers, and how artists are free to ignore criticism, and why should we have to put up with bad reviews when it’s hard enough to create, and…

…and then I … Read the rest