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 Make A Music Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0[/youtube] Annoying? You bet! But there’s gold in those inane lyrics! OK. Rebecca Black Yes, I know. But let’s move beyond that. What’s most interesting here is the story behind Rebecca Black’s success. I’ll just lift the next graph...
Read moreA Pilot’s Pilot
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1BbzrGq1ik[/youtube] It’s a LOT better than much of what I see on OWN at the moment Captain John Roberts is a professional airline pilot He’s also a member of NYVS.com While his passion is flying, his dream is to...
Read moreRoger Ebert, Steve Jobs & The National Enquirer
Roger Ebert is the film critic at The Chicago Sun He’s also one of the most popular bloggers/tweeters around, with a massive following Today, on Facebook, he posted a comment: “Not Every Steve Jobs Idea Was Brilliant” He then posted...
Read moreNo News Is Bad News
Romney v. Obama….. The Royal Mail in Britain used to be one of the most dependable institutions in the world. They would deliver the mail to your house twice a day, like clockwork, six days a week. As the...
Read moreNewspaper Video That Works – A Lesson from New Jersey
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH6C3KpO9bA[/youtube] Brian Donahue – He isn’t Brian Williams – thank God! All this week I have been participating in Dave Cohn’s Carnival of Journalism discussion on The Role of Video in the Newspaper Newsroom. (Carnival of Journalism is not, as...
Read moreLearn To Shoot, Learn Final Cut Pro, Learn to Make A Living in Video
A Year of film school compressed into four days If you are learning a lot at NYVS, (and we certainly hope you are) the best way to take this to the ‘next step’ is to take one of our...
Read moreLike Harry Potter – only moreso I am a member of a group called Carnival of Journalism. It was founded by Dave Cohn, and is funded by the Knight Foundation. (Even if Knight has turned me down three years...
Read moreTelevision, Technology and The Civil War
Dr. Nancy Hooten and a very big gun…. This week we are in Savannah Georgia, on our way to Charleston and The Citadel Tomorrow. But today we spent the day touring Savannah with Dr. Nancy Hooten – local artist...
Read moreAs Video Gets Easier To Make, TV News Runs From It
blah… blah… blah…. A very interesting opinion piece by Dave Marash, formerly from WCBS, formerly from CBS and most formerly from Al Jazzera. He published it in the Columbia Journalism Review. It’s called Fade To Black and the essence...
Read moreApparently, The Revolution Will Be Televised
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0[/youtube] Gil Scott Heron – he was great.. but he was wrong… Today we are in the eighth day of the so-called Wall Street Takeover. So far, it appears to be mostly an unfocused mess. As Gina Belafonte reports...
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