When Twitter Drives The Plot
About a million years ago (in 2004, I think), we started to produce a new show for The Travel Channel. It was based on what was then a very radical idea – very. Using ‘the Internet’, we would allow...
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An Hour Well Spent… Sometime around 2004 we went to see Pat Younge. Today, he’s the Chief Creative Officer at The BBC, but then he had just been made the President of the Travel Channel. “Congratulations and condolences”, we...
Read moreA VJ Success Story
Tony Martin, on left Tony Martin. We met him at NYU. He took the Travel Channel bootcamp. He was selected to be one of the VJs on 5Takes. Then, we did not hear from him for some time. Until...
Read moreYou Won’t See This on Local News….*
Just in from 5Takes Latin America….. Here is the most recent vlog from ‘tj’ Erika as she and 4 others make their way across Latin America. (Glad to see you found it) We supplied them with video cameras, laptops...
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sqDY8I_PFI] This is the first of many videos I will be posting from the 5Takes series. This is a vlog, intended for quick turn and online only. This is not a finished, polished for air clip. As soon as...
Read moreThe Revolution Comes Home
The hand that rocks the cradles… also holds the video camera…. Mary Sturges. Home schooling mother of 8 from South Carolina. Not exactly your idea of revolutionary. But when the video revolution reaches here, you know its real.
Read moreMaking Air
Erika Graffeo, from airline stewardess to television personality…. What we are talking about here is ‘video literacy’. That is, the ability to tell a story in video.
Read moreNo Arguments Here
..”hello room service? Can you send up a LaCie drive?….” BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: The arguments about the cameras are endless. The small cameras are toys. They are not professional. They are for amateurs. Ironically, they are also the least...
Read moreGoing Deep
…going…. going….gone? (not until tomorrow morning) Michael Blair. Running back for the Cincinatti Bengals and the Green Bay Packers… and now, a TJ or Travel Journalist for 5Takes Latin America.
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