How 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...
Read moreMeeting with STV
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfXnLdDLB7A[/youtube] Not boring… This afternoon the execs from STV, which stands for Scottish TV, are coming down to the BBC training in London. Scotland, for those of you reading this in the US, is both an independent country… and...
Read moreThe Industrial Revolution and The Video Revolution
Sir Richard Arkwright – note stockings… I am endlessly mesmerized by Britain. Here is a country that was, for most of its history, rather ordinary. Then, suddenly, in the middle of the 18th Century it undergoes a fantastic transformation....
Read moreJuan Williams, Keith Olberman & Intellectual Celibacy
Don’t tell anyone that I am actually thinking…. Last week, NPR fired Juan Williams for commenting on Fox News that seeing a person in Muslim dress on a plane made him nervous. Now MSNBC has suspended on-air host Keith...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
OK, so sometimes it doesn’t work out… We’re here at the BBC, wrapping up our week inĂ‚Â Manchester. Next week we’re with The BBC in London. We’re with the Drama and Comedy unit. The same folks who produce shows like...
Read moreWhy The BBC is Training Their Staffs to be VJs
Pat Younge, BBC Chief Creative Officer We are here in Manchester, England, running a 4-day video bootcamp for BBC staffers. This is not news. These people are the producers and directors from BBC Drama and BBC Comedy The same...
Read moreVJ Bootcamp / BBC Manchester
Today we continue VJ Bootcamp at BBC Manchester.
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