Biografia
Bob Johnston is a 35 year veteran of the entertainment production and marketing industry. He began his career managing all aspects of Live Event Production, Marketing and Promotion and quickly transitioned into the production management of Television programs, Commercials and Feature Films, while directing Corporate Video projects and Multi-Camera Music events and single camera Music Video programming.
Bob's Feature Film & TV production responsibilities have included duties such as Line Producer, Production Manager and Technical Director.
Bob has been responsible for the budgeting, scheduling and the development of over 40 Features, 30 Television shows, 35 Commercials, 20 Music Videos and over 1000 Live Event projects in locations all over the world.
With this worldwide network of international production resources and locations at his disposal, Bob is frequently contracted as a development consultant by other producers to help generate operational plans, schedules and budgets for new programming ventures. Some of his collaborations include 1492 Pictures, 19 Entertainment, Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, Imagine, IMAX, Paramount, Twentieth Television, Walden Media. Paradise FX and numerous other independent companies.
Additionally, Bob has spent decades monitoring trends and developing new content for emerging media platforms. Weaving this knowledge with international production experience, Bob now consults on the transition of emerging digital technologies into existing and new production logistics and post-production workflows on many 2D and 3D Content Projects for Live Events, Feature Films and Home TV programming.
Bob is based in Los Angeles and is involved in designing new business models for the production, distribution and exhibition of new 3D and 2D programming as a Media Strategist in new content development.
He is also involved as an Executive Producer or Consulting Producer on many projects slated for traditional theatrical and television distribution as well as newly created social environment exhibition models. As a member of the Director's Guild of America he served on it's New Technology Committee and as an Independent 3D Producer he has served on the start-up committee for the "3D@Home" industry consortium, a manufacturer's, content producers and distribution technologies group that is formulating distribution plans for this new immersive medium.
Bob has also been a guest speaker or panelist at many 3D industry symposiums and conferences including the Berlin Film Lectures, the Panasonic UK 3D TV press event at Air Studios in London, in addition to the 3D NEXT, MediaXchange, and NxtWave conferences in Los Angeles.
