The Price of Heroin – from the BBC VJ bootcamp
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5GIonSHa8c[/youtube] Powerful filmmaking from a BBC VJ Peter Wilson was an on-air reporter for The BBC until he took our Video Bootcamp. He had never touched a camera or an edit before in his life. He got the very same...
Read moreToday We Launch Guardian Media Academy in London
Our new logo Today, we are at the offices of The Guardian, one of the best (if not the best) newspapers in the world. In partnership with The Guardian, we have launched The Guardian Media Academy. The Guardian Media Academy is...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH7jLOEuxRA[/youtube] Exploring the power of highly personalized video This is the story of Robert. He’s a kid who suffers from ADHA, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It’s also the story of his mother. It was shot, edited and produced by...
Read moreNow There’s an Official White House VJ
Life at the top If there was ever any doubt about the ‘reality’ of VJs in the world of journalism, this should put a stop to it. TCA grad David Besemer sent me the following link to The New...
Read moreWe Hit 3,000 Members on NYVS.com
Plenty to smile about! Two years ago, Lisa got the idea to take our training online. www.nyvs.com With a lot of help from our partners Alex Collmer and Chris Barkley……we did. We launched the Beta site and really got...
Read moreThe London Hilton Becomes One Big Edit Suite
With the advent of laptop editing and FCP, the whole notion of an editing suite goes out the window – or into the lobby.
Read moreHow The Other Half Lives
This just in… Sent by my friend Jim Long on his iPhone. Jim is a professional cameraman with NBC News. He is in Asia with Obama on the White House press corps. All of this stuff, all of it,...
Read moreA Reply to Brendon Brooks
This is NOT Brendan Brooks (as far as I know)… Yesterday I posted a blog drawing a comparison between the arrival and impact of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain ato the arrival of small digital cameras and cheap...
Read moreA 5-Minute Lesson on Editing on your iPhone
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/16547361[/vimeo] Ripped from the pages of www.nyvs.com! I don’t think iMovie on your iPhone is going to replace FCP on a laptop, but it sure is interesting. Particularly is the touch- screen aspect of the editing. Touch and drag...
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