Mission Critical Media

Delivering the Blueprint for Labor & Emerging Technology

 

A Boutique Consulting Company for the
TV, Film & Media Industries

 

What We Deliver

We understand that in today’s evolving technical landscape, the stress and fear of devising a devising a roadmap to success is daunting.

We provide that blue print for you. 

Mission Critical Media is a boutique consulting firm that believes human authenticity is key to a strong creative and administrative workforce. Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies are tools that can ethically and safely be integrated into the labor ecosystem.

Our Services Include:

  • Adoption & integration of emerging technology into your workforce ecosystem

  • Technology Development

  • Create & implement educational roadmaps to up-skill & re-skill labor

  • Create ethical solutions to ensure safe, sustainable, & responsible work environment

  • Leadership training on navigating technological changes with empathy & vulnerability

  • Consultation on artificial Intelligence and emerging technology contractual proposals, language and goals

ABOUT:

MISSION CRITICAL.MEDIA

Mission Critical Media (MCM)’s Jillian Arnold is an expert on integration of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies into the film, television, and media space. She is the unique blend of forward thinking ideology with a vision for a more empathetic labor environment. Jillian’s focus is on technical solutions that create a tool box for our labor workforce, while keeping in mind contractual policy and the bigger scope of the next generation of television and film production.

President, Local 695
Chair, IATSE Artificial Intelligence Negotiations Subcommittee

MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Local 695: Sound, Engineering, Projection Board of Directors Member
Local 600: International Cinematographers Guild
Hollywood Professional Association Member
University of Wisconsin Alumni Chapter - Los Angeles
CalTech’s Atheneum Society
Virginia Tech Institute For Creativity, Arts, & Tech Advisory Board Member

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Emmy Award for Interactive Media - Mars Insight Landing 2019
Emmy Award for Interactive Media - Cassini Farewell 2018
Emmy Award for Grease Live 2016
Third Place NASA Videographer of the Year 2013
York High School Distinguished Alumni Award  2020 
NASA Team Recognition Award for the Mars Science Laboratory “Curiosity”broadcast
NASA Team Recognition Award for Space Flight Hardware training videos
AFL-CIO Women’s History Month Profile 2024
Studio Daily Top 50 Technologists Award 2017

Jillian served as the IATSE Artificial Intelligence Sub-Committee Chair for the 2024 IATSE-AMPTP negotiations. In this capacity, she is working to bridge the gap between Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology’s role in the workplace, while maintaining the ideology that television and films are made authentically, for humans by humans.

Her career launched in the aerospace industry in 2008 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. There she oversees high-speed, high-resolution productions for engineering analysis as part of the Mars Program. She also participated in JPL’s Juno orbital insertion, Cassini's farewell, and Mars Curiosity Landing. Jillian has participated in over a dozen missions, spanning the entire solar system. She is a member of California Institute of Technology’s Athenaeum Academic Society. She is also the first media manager to be initiated into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, where she is a member of two peer groups: “Science & Technology” and “Lighting, Camera, & Technical Arts.” 

In her career, Jillian refers to herself as “The Artist Formerly Known as The Tape Operator.” But what does that mean? As an award-winning video engineer, Jillian specializes in recording workflow engineering, digital acquisition, and media management. She is one of the few experts in this lucrative, technically progressive area of live television. These shows include MTV VMAs, The Emmys, The Oscars, Grease Live, NFL Honors, and more. In addition, she collaborates with NFL Films, Ted Talks, and all Viacom CBS tentpole shows.

In 2020, she became the first woman and the first video engineer to be elected president of IATSE Local 695 in the union’s ninety-year history. In this capacity, she represents on-set production sound, video, and projection workers in the Hollywood jurisdiction area. In 2023, she was elected to her second and current term.

She is also the first media manager to be initiated into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is a member of two peer groups: Science & Technology as well as the Lighting, Camera, and Technical Arts. 

Jillian has a Bachelor's degree in Film Theory and History from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and a Masters in Film Production - Cinematography from Chapman University.