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.
Video 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...
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....
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