Going 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 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...
Read moreThe Road to Recovery
We can kick this thing… we can….. As anyone who has ever attended an AA meeting will tell you, the road to recovery begins with honesty Before you can get ‘better’ you have to be honest about the problem....
Read moreShoot For The Cut
Series Producer Francisco Aliwalas prepares for another fast turn …. Cliff Etzel makes a very cogent point in his response to the LIFE magazine blog: Person experience story: A former Dept head of the Photo dept at a newspaper...
Read moreWhat Does It Look Like?
images that once could move a nation….. In November, 1936, Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine gave birth to a new publication: LIFE. We barely remember it now, but at one time LIFE was an American icon. People waited...
Read morePutting the VJ Army to Work
Adam Kaufmann, VJ at work on Drew Carey’s Sporting World….. In 1990 I formed a company called Video News International. By 1992 I had trained and equipped about 100 VJs around the world. No one had ever heard of...
Read moreSechrist + Rosenblum = Professional VJ Training
Now available to anyone……. Mike Sechrist, GM forWKRN is leaving his job. He was and remains one of the greatest champions of the VJ model. And at WKRN he made it work, and showed massive profits from his website....
Read moreAnchors Away
That works out to…. $144,000.00 per hour… Hooray!!! The Guardian, (and Jeff Jarvis) are reporting today that Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC told a committee of Parliament that he foresaw the end of ‘anchors’ in the...
Read moreWho wants to go to South America?
….come on down!!! Last week we completed casting for 5Takes, season four. The photo above is from the New York auditions. Lots of people turned out… and why not? This time we are sending the group to South America.
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