From The Edit Room
Busy cutting “What’s Your Trip” and some interesting stuff has come in. We have received thousands of videos from all over the world for this first pass at a “User Generated” show. And this is just the beginnning. I...
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“…. can anyone help me?” New technologies often precipitate a completely new way of looking at the world. It is not only jobs or industries that are overturned, but often what were once assumed to be basic rules of...
Read moreWho Becomes a VJ?
….Drew Carey, student…. PF Bentley… Instructor…. Risk Takers… One of our regular contributors here got in touch with one of our VJs, Karin Thayer. Following that, he did a bit of research into Thayer’s bio, and posted the following:
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Just in from 5Takes Latin America….. Here is the most recent vlog from ‘tj’ Erika as she and 4 others make their way across Latin America. (Glad to see you found it) We supplied them with video cameras, laptops...
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSaY3TSOP6c] Guy Bauer’s video submission on his trip to Ireland made it into the pilot for What’s Your Trip with Anthony Bourdain. But I also loved Bauer’s travel video to Poland. The home page for the show is finally...
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sqDY8I_PFI] This is the first of many videos I will be posting from the 5Takes series. This is a vlog, intended for quick turn and online only. This is not a finished, polished for air clip. As soon as...
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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$1,000 if your video appears on the show… not a bad deal….. Citizen Journalism or “The Revolution” in television production is all fine, but there has to be a market for your work. What’s the ‘entry level’ slot for...
Read moreAnd now…. lose the Building….
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVw7YQwIaw] WKRN GM Mike Sechrist at Bloggers Convention Almost a year ago, Mike Sechrist invited me to come down to Nashville for a Bloggers Convention. I had been to plenty of Current.tv ‘meet ups’, but this was different. These...
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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