And Now… Hasselblad TV
Hasselblad TV Last year, Lisa bought me a digital Hasselblad for my birthday. These are the Rolls Royces of stills cameras. And they cost nearly as much. Sometimes, when I am out shooting with the Hasselblad, people will ask...
Read moreAn NYVS Success Story
TOM HOLMES is an NYVS member. He also publishes a magazine called Encore. It’s like Playbill, but better, says Tom. Like all magazine publishers, Tom understood that he has to get into video for his website and his business so...
Read moreHow Video Changed One Man’s Life
As you know I am writing a book “iPhone Millionaire – Six Weeks To Change Your Life” The final draft has to be with my editor in two weeks, so I am crashing to a close. As part of...
Read moreWhy Networks Are Finished
The confluence of two piece up in today’s blogosphere drives home the point of why conventional network television is deader than a doornail. First, a fascinating blog on Empire Avenue. Blogger Ric Williams went to CES and attended a...
Read moreReuters Launches Reuters TV and Does Not Get It
Don’t get it… Yesterday, Pat Younge, Chief Creative Officer at The BBC sent me a link to a Neiman Report from the highly respected Neiman Journalism Lab. It was all about Reuters TV. Reuters, the global news service is launching...
Read more5Takes 2.0?
An Hour Well Spent… Sometime around 2004 we went to see Pat Younge. Today, he’s the Chief Creative Officer at The BBC, but then he had just been made the President of the Travel Channel. “Congratulations and condolences”, we...
Read moreSky’s New Broadband Experiment in England – Dan Salisbury-Jones
Last week we ran an intensive bootcamp for the new VJs for Sky’s experimental broadband local news site – Tyne&Ware in Newcastle, UK. This piece was shot, edited and produced in one day by VJ Dan Salisbury-Jones. As...
Read moreSky’s New Broadband Service Tyne & Wear – First Bootcamp Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROOdCXqdPKc[/youtube] Andy Hughes, former newspaper reporter. Never shot or cut video before. Looking good.
Read moreIn Newcastle, The Sky’s The Limit
Back to Newcastle This week Lisa and I are running a VJ bootcamp with Sky, the UK broadcaster. We’re in Newcastle, in Northern England where Sky is going to launch a local broadband based television (if that’s the right...
Read moreKodak and Cambodia – Nothing Lasts Forever
Also the set for Raiders of the Lost Ark This week we are in Angkor Wat, near Siem Reap in central Cambodia. The first time I was here was in 1992 with David Kennerly. We were shooting one of...
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