BET 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...
Read moreCragislist TV – A World of Options
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twWB4QstgA&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Craigslist TV Not so many years ago, Craig Newmark brought down just about every newspaper in this country with his Craigslist. In one simple act, he and a handful of employees working out of a garage in San...
Read moreWhy TV Sucks
Is that a video camera in your hand? I run 3-4 miles every morning. I used to listen to music on my iPod, but my friend Mark Bittman (who just ran the Albany marathon yesterday) suggested I try books...
Read moreThe Fractionalization of Power
Who decides what we see? There was an interesting story on NPR this morning on I Love Lucy and its impact on American television and culture. I Love Lucy began with the birth of television as a seminal medium....
Read moreHow One of our TCA Grads Went on to Star in his Own Reality Show!
Tune in Mondays at 10! A few years ago we had a student in our of our New York bootcamps. He was from South Carolina – a former State Trooper who ran drug dogs. He had set up his...
Read moreHow NOT to Raise Money for an Indy film
First, make your video embeddable! OK So yesterday we had a discussion about how to make the world’s worst political commercial. (Incidentally, I emailed my comments to Terryl Clark’s campaign office. So far, no response. (I think she’s gonna...
Read moreHow NOT to Make A Political Ad
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwQLBizwosY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Unbelievably terrible I don’t want to get into politics here.. but… this ad for Tarryl Clark (did you even know it was for her) is one of the worst political ads I have ever seen. It is terribly...
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