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 Shoot An Interview – And How NOT To Shoot An Interview
IÂ just screened a piece done by a videojournalist who works for us. Terrible. CTLL (clear the timeline) territory. She had recently graduated from a journalism program at a university that we often hire from. The first thing we...
Read moreObama – Our First Reality Show President
Can he make it to the final? “You are what you eat”, or more properly, ‘tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are’ said the 18th Century French epicure Brillant-Savarin. In France, eating was...
Read moreIs Facebook Total Bullshit?
At last, something real I have spent the past few days taking long walks in the Cotswolds, in England. The nice thing about England (one of many) is the ‘right of passage’ laws that allows you to cross otherwise...
Read moreThe Museum of Soon-to-be-Obsolete Technology
The half-life of technologie has never been fast. Critical must- have today, a worthless piece of junk tomorrow. The turn-around time has never been fast. LP records lasted for about 70 years until cassette tape drove them out. But...
Read moreHow To Start Your Own Production Company
First, lose the film! Yesterday I got an email from an old friend in Colorado who is a professional television cameraman. He works in news and is one of the best in the business. But he also sees what...
Read moreUndaunted Courage
This way ahead…. OFFÂ THEÂ MAP I am reading Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose, the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition across North America. Lewis and Clark set out in 1804 to chart the overland path from St. Louis...
Read moreWhy TV News is SO VERY TERRIBLE (and why ratings keep dropping)
same old.. same old… When television was launched by David Sarnoff at the 1939 World’s Fair in NY, no one knew what to do with it. Think Internet 1992. But they knew what to do with radio. Radio was...
Read moreThe Camera That Changed The World
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqxQGI3BTXs&feature=related[/youtube] one of the all time great movies This is the trailer from A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouche Produced in France (needless to say) in 1966, it was written, directed and filmed by Lelouche using a...
Read moreA Great Story, A Crap Video & A Business Opportunity
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhEAr8xMryk[/youtube] or… a really bad music video… Yesterday, Lisa and I ran a very successful live webinar on ‘How To Start Your Own Production Company’. The core, beyond the legal stuff, is ‘where do you find the clients’. Today, I...
Read moreLucian Freud, The Queen of England and TV
We are not amused… Last week saw the passing of Lucian Freud, often described as one of Britain’s greatest painters. Freud, the grandson of Sigmun Freud, as famous for being unrelenting to showing absolute realism in his paintings. Fat...
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