TCA Santa Barbara

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Welcome to the course…..

Today we start our West Coast edition of Travel Channel Academy.

We’ve partnered with the Brooks Photographic Institute in Santa Barbara.

Brooks is one of the pre-eminent Photo training institutes in the world, and so the move from stills to video is a logical partnership.

Our emphasis in the construction of video as a largely visually driven event meshes nicely with the whole Brooks partnership.

And of course, spending the week in Santa  Barbara is not so terrible!

We used to run our West Coast courses in LA, but we found that every pizzaria in town wanted $2500 for a ‘location fee’ when the students went to shoot there.  Santa Barbara is much friendlier!

Congrats also to TCA alum Scott Gorman who just got a commissioned series of 3 cities for Travel Channel!

Travel Channel has earmarked $250,000 for commissions from TCA grads for this year alone.

Mazel tov, Scott.

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Michael Rosenblum

For more than 35 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.

1 Comment
  • eb April 27, 2009

    The “Institute of Photography” needs to put some pictures up on the walls 😉