Michael on Media
Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.
He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.
Now THAT’S Service
We arrived in England a few days ago and are staying with family in a small village about 120 miles north of London. A day after we arrived, the boiler gave out. No heat. No hot water. We called...
Read moreThe Impact of Commonality
You push the button, we do the rest In this week’s New Yorker, John Updike reviews The Art of the American Snapshot, published by The National Gallery of Art and Princeton University. Its a fascinating book about how snapshots...
Read moreScripting Without Paper – 3rd in a series
“Writing” a script for a video or television piece is inherently destructive to the quality of the storytelling. I know this may sound heretical, but it is true. We are working in a medium of picture and sound. We...
Read moreMore On Fluffy
More notes on scriptwriting OK. So you’ve spent the day at the Dog and Cat Hospital, and while you were there, you were witness to (and filmed) the amazing rescue of Fluffy the puppy hit by the car and...
Read moreKevin Cooney Comes for Coffee
Yesterday, Kevin Cooney dropped by the house for coffee. He is in NY on a brief visit from Japan. About 8 months ago we kicked off the Travel Channel Academies and Whats Your Trip?, the TV show that showcased...
Read more"Writing" for Broadcast
Fluffy must die? You are shooting a story in a veterinary hospital when suddenly, a small 5-year old girl comes in cradling her puppy. The dog has been hit by a car, and though barely alive, the little girl...
Read moreWhat I Learned from Charles Kuralt
On The Road to making better video…. When we train VJs now, we train them to work in very different ways. One of the ways we differ is that we teach them to lay in all the pictures first...
Read moreW Eugene Smith and the Video Essay
Welsh Coal Miners by W Eugene Smith 1950 I spent this afternoon at a major New Jersey newspaper with Jeff Jarvis . The paper, like many print publications in this country, is moving into video. This is inevitable. As...
Read moreAt the Heart of the Matter
I don’t normally write about personal things, but first, how much can you write about VJs? Then, I had an interesting visit to the doctors office yesterday. I tend to approach medicine as though as I were a Christian...
Read moreLA Times Goes Harry Potter (well why not)
Video ‘in’ a newspaper? Why not? In 1990, I ran a VJ training bootcamp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. One of the participants was the Voice of American Bureau Chief for Kabul, Afghanistan – Scott Anger. He had been a...
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