Why You Don’t Want To Drag Around That Stupid Tripod All Day
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkRklAsEEg[/youtube] Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England Last night we had dinner with a senior executive at a major UK broadcasting network – all to remain unnamed. He’s interested in training his reporters to work as VJs. All to...
Read moreCNN Lays Off 50 Staffers – Blames “Technology”
Comments 37 First video killed the radio star, and now technology is killing editing and videographer jobs — at least at CNN. The cable news network today laid off 50 staffers in the Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles,...
Read moreHow To Use Video To Grow Your Business (really big)
Tom Carvel and Cookiepuss.. When I was a kid growing up in NYÂ there used to be ads on the local TV station, WPIX-9 for Carvel Ice Cream. The ads featured Tom Carvel, who believe me, was no TVÂ professional. But...
Read moreHow To Make Great Travel Videos
The King of Travel Videos – at least at the moment… Bhisgen posted a question a few days ago that really got me thinking. He asked how you apply the 5-shot rules to travel videos. This made me realize that...
Read moreCNN Cuts Its Cameramen
Not exactly breaking news… In a nod to the obvious, CNN announced yesterday that it was cutting its corps of cameramen. Photographers, editors and other staffers in Atlanta, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Miami are being let...
Read moreKBAK-TV in Bakersfiled makes “Network” look like a documentary film
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWyvVlXtJms&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] And now.. this…. OK. I was going to title this – End Of The World Part VII. This is actually a local news station in Bakersfield, California. They created a music video to sell their viewers on the...
Read moreMike Van Horn’s Mixed Martial Arts Reality Show Pitch
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cthr9RXKU0[/youtube] The characters are unbelievably good Mike Van Horn is a graduate of the Travel Channel Academy. That means he ‘chopped the carrots’ just like you. Now, he’s moved on to more interesting chopping than carrots. He just sent...
Read moreA K.I.S.S. from Apple
Genius Like pretty much everyone else I know, I am about half-way through Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. There are many take-aways from the book, which I urge you to read, but one that really is sticking with...
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