NY Magazine Video Academy – Day 1
Opening session at NY Magazine Video Academy. We are just off the plane from London, and wrapping up the Guardian Media Academy yesterday and this morning we are starting our pilot partnership with New York Magazine – the New York...
Read morePoor Sad Pathetic Little Fox News
laughable and lamentable. Poor, pathetic, sad little Fox News. They clearly don’t get it at all. Fox recently annouced a new category of reporters: Junior Reporters Says Fox: “The idea behind the program is to give the reporter enough...
Read moreNPPA Award Winner Michelle Michael Takes Us Bowling
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6EJH3rhBg0[/youtube] NPPA Award WInner Michelle Michael’s story about a man who works in a bowling alley. We all spend a lot of our time searching for stories. Here’s a great piece by Michelle Michael and you’ll notice that even...
Read moreStorytelling at The Guardian Media Academy
Fluffy lives again… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9MEAWi_NDU[/youtube] We are at The Guardian in London for The Guardian Media Academy 4-day training course. (www.guardianmediaacademy.com) There are people from Holland, France, England and Belgium, as well as from Lonely Planet. Our primary interest in this class,...
Read moreCoen Brothers Cut True Grit on FCP
I guess it makes the cut now… Not so many years ago my ex-wife (but every day it becomes more days!!!) had a ‘discussion’ with me about Final Cut Pro as an editing tool. “It’s a toy”, she announced...
Read moreLearn Filmmaking @Sea with Us and Crystal Cruises
Crystal Symphony This indeed is the filmmaking experience of a lifetime. We’re joining up with Crystal Cruises, the world’s premier luxury cruise line to offer a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. Learn filmmaking and video while cruising the Caribbean and Bermuda....
Read moreHow To Use FCP as a Scriptwriting Tool
Ken Pattenden, when he is not at his computer My 85-year old English father-in-law is remarkably computer literate. (He is also in remarkably good shape (note photo above), but more about computer literacy. As an avid reader of this...
Read moreMonopoly, Burger King & The Forbin Project
Do not pass go – OK, if you say so… Every once in a while you read a book that has an enormous impact on the way you think. Sidney Mintz’s Sweetness and Power was such a book. Ostensibly,...
Read moreA Very Short History of Music Videos – Part 2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWULu5_nXI[/youtube] The Moody Blues – Knights in White Satin – 1967 The combination of music and images has, since the introduction of opera, been one of the most powerful media in human experience. Up until now, it was so...
Read more