More from Verizon – Colby Hartburg

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Colby Hartburg – Verizon Hyperlocal VJ

All pieces shot, written, produced, edited, voiced, researched and reported by Colby in one day.

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behind the scenes as Mount Vernon restores a historic building
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a look at an artist and his robotic art
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interview with author (and great great grandson of Charles Darwin) Matthew Chapman about his book on the intelligent design/evolution debate.
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– an inside look at one of Northern VA’s biggest horse race events.

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 30 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.

6 Comments
  • rosenblumtv October 15, 2007

    Sorry Tim
    As I am on the road so much, sometimes I do the blog on the blackberry – which is not the best.

  • Tim October 15, 2007

    I hate to post this – because the piece is very interesting to me – but, it was sort of disconcerting that the captions were disassociated from their corresponding video pieces, and were sitting on top of the next piece. For example, when I clicked on the piece closest to the caption for: “a look at an artist and his robotic art” I got the piece about Charles Darwin’s grandson. I’m sure it’s some kind of formatting error or oversight, but to me it points out how some media require more attention to detail than others.

  • $ October 11, 2007

    I’m not surprised these were done in one day. They look like it without a doubt.

    That’s not taking anything away from their efforts. They are obviously learning. What is missing is pacing with the editing. Not to mention cut-aways and sequencing. Easy to get by if all you do is dissolve, dissolve, dissolve, but that’s pretty lazy editing and a misuse of the “language” of editing.

    This end product is what I expected and probably fits the pay range these people get.

    It’s a beginning. Let’s hope there is improvement in the future.

  • pencilgod October 11, 2007

    Cool. In that case. Tell her never to shoot a move unless she knows where she will end up. Have an end frame in mind and stop dead on it. You can cut into a move but it looks scrappy to cut out of one. You might get away with it once or twice in a story but it gets old real quick. A pan is a form of transition it needs a beginning a middle and an end. The racing one from the trumpet had a beginning… a long beginning no middle and a delayed mistimed end. I would have shot it different but given that’s what she did why not in editing ramp up the middle? Start, whoosh, end. Funky, easy, quick and you lose nothing visually important and gain pace look interesting.

  • rosenblumtv October 10, 2007

    Stephen
    The team (and I) always appreciate constructive criticism. We are always all about getting better.

  • pencilgod October 10, 2007

    I look at these and think here is someone who would really benefit from some training. There is some good stuff hidden amongst the dross. For now shorter stories 2 min max and a ban on pans for a month.