Seemingly complex motion picture concepts simply explained

Bob Degus’ comprehensive twenty-year experience as a Film Producer, Studio Executive, Director and PostProduction Supervisor, gives him a very rare multi-faceted understanding of motion picture production that goes beyond the narrow lens of the typical department-specific expert.  

He is carefully spoken, ethical, and views his role as an Expert Witness as a way to lend clarity about filmmaking processes to the legal profession and more importantly, those individuals who must decide the resolution to disputes. 

Movies are not made in the vacuum of a single department, which typically sees the issue only from its perspective, but are rather an assembly of many disparate parts dynamically coming together to make an entire whole.

For example, the answer to the seemingly simple question of whether a film was technically delivered or not, may rest in other areas beyond what a traditional postproduction expert offering an opinion from his or her limited perspective may see. 

Movies are based on scripts, from scripts come production plans and from those production plans, budgets.  These three elements come together during production to guide the “manufacture” of the elements necessary to “build” and “deliver” the film in postproduction, ultimately allowing for its release.   How they all interrelate or failed to interrelate, as governed and conceived by the legal contracts, could be key to your case. 

This interrelation is quite often forensically dissectible and explainable, after the fact.

Wouldn’t it be helpful, as an Attorney, to have access to this knowledge at an early stage in your case?   Explained to you in a complete and nuanced way?    Would it not be helpful to have a passionate articulate individual who could explain these same issues during trial/arbitration on behalf of your client?

Bob’s area of expertise lies in the intersection between the worlds of what is commonly understood in the motion picture industry as a Line Producer and that of a Post Production Supervisor with an emphasis on the technical and creative aspects of each and how they inform each other and come together to make a film.

He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture And Sciences and The Society Of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. 

Excellent legal references upon request.