Beyond Mentos and Coke Bottles….
The Class of 05/07 On Sunday afternoon we concluded the first ‘pilot’ of the Travel Channel Academy VJ training course. It was a great success.
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Day 2
so far…. so good Second day at the Travel Channel Academy and things are going quite well. Our group of 20 students have shot their first piece and they are in the middle of cutting it. We will screen...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Day 1
First day… first class… Lurleen lectures… Almost six months ago, we entered into discussions with The Discovery Channel about partnering in a training school where anyone could learn to shoot, cut and produce content for TV shows and the...
Read moreKGTV VJs – How Does it Work?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujY4i8tP_p4] KGTV tells their story better than I could Here is a look at how VJs work in local news. It is produced by KGTV, where we will be next month to do another round of training. Ed Quinn...
Read moreThe Road to Recovery
We can kick this thing… we can….. As anyone who has ever attended an AA meeting will tell you, the road to recovery begins with honesty Before you can get ‘better’ you have to be honest about the problem....
Read morePicture This
Videojournalist PF Bentley and Gulfstream during Drew Carey’s Sporting World shoot in Germany. (Gulftream is not Bentley’s). There is a red herring swimming about claiming that VJ is a code term for 23 year olds with no experience and...
Read moreShoot For The Cut
Series Producer Francisco Aliwalas prepares for another fast turn …. Cliff Etzel makes a very cogent point in his response to the LIFE magazine blog: Person experience story: A former Dept head of the Photo dept at a newspaper...
Read moreWhat Does It Look Like?
images that once could move a nation….. In November, 1936, Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine gave birth to a new publication: LIFE. We barely remember it now, but at one time LIFE was an American icon. People waited...
Read moreWhat’s Your Trip?
$1,000 if your video appears on the show… not a bad deal….. Citizen Journalism or “The Revolution” in television production is all fine, but there has to be a market for your work. What’s the ‘entry level’ slot for...
Read morePutting the VJ Army to Work
Adam Kaufmann, VJ at work on Drew Carey’s Sporting World….. In 1990 I formed a company called Video News International. By 1992 I had trained and equipped about 100 VJs around the world. No one had ever heard of...
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