New Trends in the Entertainment Business

          

           There are many trends that come and go so many that are here and gone in a flash except for the following: 3D movies, Digital downloads of music, and apps for smart phones that one can access their social media sites and play games on the go now. 

           We have been witnessing a rise of 3D movies on the big screen and now in our homes on flat screen T.V.’s.  This technological advancement brings excitement to a once mundane screen to having objects literally jump out at us while watching a movie.  With each new wave, however, the technology takes a leap forward. The first craze in 3Dmovies in the 1950s used red-blue anaglyph images, but this distorted the film's color. When 3D came around a second time in the 1980s, there was a new way to make 3D images: polarized anaglyphs. These images used light levels, rather than colors, to produce 3D. Now, in 2010, even the way 3D is filmed has taken another step forward.

         

ALTERNATIVE FUNDING SERVICES

           

             It is important that people especially entrepreneurs know that there is financial assistance available to them to help start or improve their businesses.  There are lots of companies that may offer assistance but from researching various websites I have found two that may help the most to small businesses in this time of an unstable economy, and they are the following:  The Opportunity Finance Network, and the Association for Enterprise Opportunity. 

            The first organization is Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), and it is a national network of community development financial private institutions that offer affordable lending to small businesses–it is great in that they help people open businesses, and create jobs in impoverished towns.  As well, OFN is in collaboration with Starbucks to help create jobs across the country, “Get America back to work.”  Thus, this network has originated more than $23.2 billion in financing in urban, rural, and native communities through 2005 at 1.4 % interest.  Also, OFN has financed 60,261 businesses.  They have a strong mission statement that includes the following:  financing, public policy, knowledge sharing, strategic counseling, and strategic communications.  Therefore, it is wonderful that they included those topics within their mission statement to address the importance and what they want to accomplice- this keeps the network focused, dedicated, and on track of what the network entails.