My Birthday Surprise
Taken with my iPhone.. needless to say, not the Hasselblad My wife just surprised me with my birthday present – a new Hasselblad H4D digital camera. It is quite literally the best camera in the world. It gets a...
Read moreOK Go Video Beats Robert Altman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w[/youtube] A few years ago I read In The Blink of an Eye, by Walter Murch. It’s the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola. Murch was the editor. In the book he talks...
Read moreWhat I Learned at BET
Pretty much everyone knows that television news is terrible. It is unwatchable. It is crap. The people who know this the best are the people who are actually in the business. They aren’t kidding anyone, least of all themselves....
Read moreVideo Saved His Life
Now we’re democratizing the medium… All this week we have been working with BET, the Black Entertainment Television network. Like always we’ve got a group of producers and reporters that we’re teaching to shoot and cut their own stuff....
Read moreGrads At Sea
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T687IdXpCwc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] could be on Nickelodeon or an After School Special… Two years ago, David Besemer took our TCA course in Santa Barbara. He did a pretty good video on Toot, the water taxi in the Santa Barbara harbor. When...
Read moreBy The Numbers
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz OK Here’s a sobering statistic The average American spends 4.5 hours a day watching TV. And as video migrates to iPads, iPods and the web, that number is going to increase. Good for us video makers Now, here’s...
Read moreBET News VJ Bootcamp Starts Today
Tiffany Tate and a dozen others… Today we start another intensive VJ bootcamp with BET News. The journalists at BET are going to work as VJs, shooting and reporting and editing their own stories. This is a four-day professional...
Read moreBefore There Was Twitter There Were Telegrams.. STOP
When every word cost something. Long before there was Twitter there were telegrams. They were the physical child of the telegraph, the first rapid communications system in the world. Those who wished to send telegrams paid by the word,...
Read moreWhy Current TV Failed… and what they’re not doing about it
Currently in trouble…. OK Before I start, full disclosure. I am a shareholder in Current TV Which makes me hope that new CEO Mark Rosenthal’s strategy for success will work. But I am not so sure. The intitial idea...
Read moreCan An Indy Feature Also Sell Houses?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYy–_afks[/youtube] I think we’re getting close to something interesting here… Chad Sylvester, TCA Alum sent me the above. He made it along with Colby Michaud. Chad is not a filmmaker – or at least he wasnt’ when he took...
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