Join Us For Caribbean Video/Filmmaking Bootcamp
Lights… cameras…. sand…. sun…. music….palms….. Next Tuesday we leave New York aboard the Crystal Symphony for our 12-day ‘filmmaking cruise’, via Bermuda and the Islands of the Caribbean en route to Miami. We’re bringing 40 cameras and edits along...
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Crystal Symphony This indeed is the filmmaking experience of a lifetime. We’re joining up with Crystal Cruises, the world’s premier luxury cruise line to offer a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. Learn filmmaking and video while cruising the Caribbean and Bermuda....
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Getting right to the point After 7 days as sea, we made the passage from Mombasa, Kenya to India and this morning, at 7am local time, made landfall in Cochin, India. Needless to say, after 7 days at sea,...
Read moreA Word For National Geographic
Hey Steve, get that camera out of my face… I’m trying to watch American Idol…. SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN:Â OK. We are now somewhere between Madagascar and India, somewhat closer to Madagascar. Because of the...
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Two of our students head off for Mombasa ready to start filming…. When I was 21 and young and dumb I spent a year crossing Africa overland. I went across the Sahara Desert with the Toureg Bedouin then made...
Read moreYou Push The Button
Kodak….. a good idea at the time In 1888 George Eastman launched Kodak with the motto “You push the button, we do the rest”. Although photography had been around for a while, it was, until Eastman, an expensive and...
Read moreHow To Make Better Home Videos
Trying to figure something out… For the past week we have been running TCA at Sea, in partnership with Crystal Cruises. As I write this we’re off the coast of Mozambique, headed north to Zanzibar, our next port of...
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There’s a Great White around here somewhere… I am filing this from the Crystal Serenity, a top of the line luxury cruise ship, and we’re now just rounding the Cape of Good Hope off South Africa on our way...
Read moreThe World’s Greatest Filmmaking Course
Getting the wide shot… Next month we will depart with around 40 participants on what I think will be the world’s greatest filmmaking and video course ever. Or at least that is how I see it. We’re running our...
Read moreTCA Goes To Sea
Anchors aweigh (away?) Yesterday we signed a deal with Crystal Cruises to run Travel Channel Academy courses at sea! Of course, Cruise Ships seem a pretty logical place to run a Travel Channel Academy. You are, after all, on the...
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