What Is Real?

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Our good friend Pat Younge, former head of The Travel Channel and now Chief Creative Officer at The BBC was our houseguest  for the past two days.

Pat is always interesting, and he showed us the clip above from Stargate Studios.

Being in the business, of course, we are always aware of green screens and digital effects, but frankly, I was astonished watching the relel as to how advanced and how all pervasive the technology has become.

As we spend more and more time watching screens (8.5 hours a day and climbing) and more and more of our onscreen images are both video and apparently artificially created video, are we in fact heading for a world in which, in the end, nothing will be real?

It’s a point to ponder as several technological trends play out and start to converge.

What, in fact, is real?

Or more worrisome – does it matter?

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.

3 Comments
  • Zack July 30, 2010

    The ability to create realistic scenes is going to allow for more expansion in historical pieces as well – did you see what they did for John Adams? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRX7o0DZc34

  • Austin Beeman July 29, 2010

    We’re moving towards a world where those with the money and the skill to produce stuff like that will control how EVERYBODY ELSE views reality. Who needs to be put into ‘the matrix’ when 8.5 hours per day can be shaped perfectly! Incredible and scary.

  • Eric Blumer July 29, 2010

    Very cool. Wow.