When Toasters Attack
It’s Toaster Week on Discovery Channel Yesterday we went to the aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa. The aquarium is great, lots of interesting stuff, but without a doubt, the number one draw is the Shark Tank. It is...
Read moreIt really IS the end of the world….
And the winner is……. “Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse? -From...
Read moreTJ Academy – 2 July sessions – sign up now!
Travel Channel President & GM Pat Younge meets with Academy participants. If you want to break into the TV business, you can’t beat this kind of access…. We are taking enrollment for the Travel Channel Academy. We are running...
Read moreTC Academy Goes Live
….from pilot to reality….. In the TV business, one first does a pilot. If it rates it goes to series. In March of this year, we ran a pilot of our Travel Channel Academy in partnership with The Travel...
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.
Read more5Takes Lat Am Takes Off
video cameras… laptops… upload instructions… and one change of underwear. Now in our fourth season, the 5Takes team gathered in Silver Spring, Discovery Communications headquarters to prep for their trip to Latin America. After an extensive online search for...
Read moreBeyond Mentos and Coke Bottles….
The Class of 05/07 On Sunday afternoon we concluded the first ‘pilot’ of the Travel Channel Academy VJ training course. It was a great success.
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Day 2
so far…. so good Second day at the Travel Channel Academy and things are going quite well. Our group of 20 students have shot their first piece and they are in the middle of cutting it. We will screen...
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