What Is Video Literacy?
What does it say? When Gutenberg first laid paper to inked typeface, there were almost no rules of grammar. For more than 1,000 years, literacy, where there was any at all, had rested in the far off monastaries. Punctuaction,...
Read moreThe World Turned Upside-Down
…for all to see, in black and white… “Yes, there are more producers of video content. That content will continue to grow/explode. But I will not have time or energy to watch more than a few each day. Sorting...
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 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 moreOut of Focus
Can you have them shake hands instead? Since its inception, making television has been like reading tea leaves. You knew there was an audience out there, but you didn’t really know what they wanted. So you guessed, or dealt...
Read more5Takes – Season 4
No time for photos… we’re on a very tight schedule… A REVOLUTION IN A LAPTOP Two years ago, we engaged in a small experiment in television production. We wanted to send 5 young Americans to Europe for the summer...
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