Amazing Example of iPhone Video
We are strong believers in smartphone video here at VJ. Smartphones are small, lightweight, unassuming and increasingly have amazing cameras on them. You can shoot professional quality, edit on it, and share directly to your preferred platform all from the single device. Their...
Read moreApple Takes Another Bite At The TV Business
TV is a multi-billion dollar business ripe for disruption. Like Brazil, ‘the land of the future and always will be’, the notion of what could replace conventional television looms but never seems to find a home. Apple, which did...
Read moreHow To Be A Writer
When I gradauted from college, I knew what I wanted to do. I was going to be a writer. But to be a writer, I needed something to write about. So I hitch-hiked overland from London to Kathmandu, Nepal....
Read moreHow Google Designed the Pixel 2’s Camera
Last week, Google announced its new smartphone model the Pixel 2. The new model, which comes in two sizes, boasts a slew of new features including an OLED screen, but what is most exciting about this new phone is...
Read moreHow to Save Newspapers & Magazines
Print organizations like newspapers and magazines are magnets for creative people who have a passion for telling stories. They didn’t go to work for the paper of the magazine because they thought it was a good way to...
Read more13 Editing Techniques and When to Use Them
When you are editing a video you have many options in the way you present your video. The length of clips, the order, any effects or music, and the way you transition from one clip to another. At its...
Read moreRolling Stone – For Sale & Pivoting To Video
Rolling Stone, that iconic magzine for anyone who has any interest in music, or grew up in the 60s or 70s or 80s… is both 50 years old and for sale. A piece in this month’s Vanity Fair pretty much...
Read moreWant to make a TV series? Keep These 5 Principles in Mind
Do you want to produce a series for TV or the Internet? The time has never been better to produce your own series. There are thousands of cable channels around the world that are starving for content, in addition...
Read moreGoogle Announces New Pixel 2 Smartphone
Last month it was Apple’s iPhone X, this month it’s the Pixel 2. Google unveiled their new smartphone model, the Pixel 2, at their event this week and like its predicessor it looks to be a formidable cometator to...
Read moreIs Journalism Elitist?
I am reading Bob Schieffer’s new book “Overload: Finding The Truth in Today’s Deluge of News“. Schieffer is the ‘journalist emeritus’ at CBS News, having anchored Face The Nation for years, and is now a regular on CBS This...
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