Michael on Media

Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.

He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.

How To Use Video To Grow Your Business (really big)

Tom Carvel and Cookiepuss.. When I was a kid growing up in NY there used to be ads on the local TV station, WPIX-9 for Carvel Ice Cream. The ads featured Tom Carvel, who believe me, was no TV professional. But...

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How To Make Great Travel Videos

The King of Travel Videos – at least at the moment… Bhisgen posted a question a few days ago that really got me thinking. He asked how you apply the 5-shot rules to travel videos. This made me realize that...

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CNN Cuts Its Cameramen

Not exactly breaking news… In a nod to the obvious, CNN announced yesterday that it was cutting its corps of cameramen. Photographers, editors and other staffers in Atlanta, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Miami are being let...

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KBAK-TV in Bakersfiled makes “Network” look like a documentary film

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWyvVlXtJms&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] And now.. this…. OK. I was going to title this – End Of The World Part VII. This is actually a local news station in Bakersfield, California. They created a music video to sell their viewers on the...

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Mike Van Horn’s Mixed Martial Arts Reality Show Pitch

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cthr9RXKU0[/youtube] The characters are unbelievably good Mike Van Horn is a graduate of the Travel Channel Academy. That means he ‘chopped the carrots’ just like you. Now, he’s moved on to more interesting chopping than carrots. He just sent...

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A K.I.S.S. from Apple

Genius Like pretty much everyone else I know, I am about half-way through Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. There are many take-aways from the book, which I urge you to read, but one that really is sticking with...

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How To Record Great Audio At Home For Under $100

Just talk… This weekend we ran an intensive video training bootcamp right here at the Museum Tower – which made life easier for us and more pleasant for our students. A few weeks ago, we talked about ‘how to...

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Hollister Video?

Crying out for content…. Yesterday I was walking down Fifth Avenue and I passed the new Hollister store (52nd and Fifth). Hollister, for those who don’t know, is a hip and trendy clothing store. They are owned by the...

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The Tragedy of Kodak

Open Me First When Christmas time came around, the infamous KODAK box had a tag on it that said “open me first’, so that you could take pictures of the everyone opening the rest of their gifts. Yesterday, Kodak’s...

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Join Us For Caribbean Video/Filmmaking Bootcamp

Lights… cameras…. sand…. sun…. music….palms….. Next Tuesday we leave New York aboard the Crystal Symphony for our 12-day ‘filmmaking cruise’, via Bermuda and the Islands of the Caribbean en route to Miami. We’re bringing 40 cameras and edits along...

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