Back To The BBC
Back to The BBC This week we are in Manchester, England, running a full blown, hands-on video bootcamp for The BBC. There are 40 producers, writers and technical people from The BBC’s Drama Unit. They are all learning how...
Read moreInteractive TV on Channel 4? What Else Is New?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tozDUMW5mzE[/youtube] Not even in reruns In 2004, Pat Younge, now Chief Creative Officer at The BBC, then head of The Travel Channel in the US and I hatched a scheme to air a new kind of television series. It...
Read moreBBC Approves Canon XF300
Professional just got a whole lot less expensive Many thanks to Kevin Johnson at b-roll.net for this update The BBC, the premier quality broadcaster in the world just released its new production guidelines for 2010. Among the many requirements...
Read moreThe 1-Man TV Station in NJ that Scares The Crap out of Teheran
Taking a break from undermining the regime in Iran… Mehdi Saharkhiz stopped by the house yesterday afternoon for a chat. I read about him in The Guardian last week and was immediately intrigued. The headline in the Guardian ran:...
Read moreBBC Natural History – Bootcamp Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuI4eTw_xxI[/youtube] Lucinda Axellrod [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkRklAsEEg[/youtube] Rosie Gloyn [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKuDA0Uq874[/youtube] Miles [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemZy_SR_yY[/youtube] Elly We have just completed our first BBC bootcamps in Bristol, UK for the Natural History Unit. These are the same folks who bring you Blue Planet or Meerkat Manor....
Read moreNow That’s Productivity!
Like building a new building… without the building… We’re here wrapping up a week of intensive training at The BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol. Everyone is in the big conference room, beavering away on their final projects. In...
Read moreThe Wasted Potential
Don’t look at the camera… We are spending this week with The BBC in Bristol, in the UK. We’re running a bootcamp for 40 BBC producers, directors, associate producers, researchers and God only know what other positions they hold....
Read moreBack to The BBC
I spent five years training more then 750 journalists to be VJs at The BBC between 2000 and 2005. Now, five years later, we are back at The Beeb, running another pilot bootcamp. This time we are in Bristol...
Read moreGood Bye Floppy Drive
My first computer was an NEC APCIII, the APC standing for Advanced Personal Computer. And for its time, which was 1983, it was advanced. It ran on floppy disks. I had trays of them, each carefully marked. Word Processing,...
Read moreWhy I Don’t Contribute to PBS
Thirteen is still an unlucky number… Full disclosure: My very first job in TV was with PBS at Channel 13. That would be WNET/13, the PBS station in New York. I was a production assistant on a public affairs...
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