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.
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Read moreMy Four Days at The ICP
Mapplethorp II I just finished an intensive 4-day course in advanced portrait lighting at the International Center for Photography in NY. The course was taught by Harvey Stein, an accomplished photographer in his own right. Personally, I was most...
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Sign up now! Last year we launcyhed out intensive, in-London hands-on video training bootcamp. The Guardian Media Academy. Now, we’re running it again – February 21-24. In London At the offices of The Guardian, one of the most prestigious...
Read moreMajek Pictures Shoots Feature on iPhone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymqZfkuwmw[/youtube] Unbelievable First, many thanks to our unflailing Cape Town correspondant Dominque Vandenhoudt who tipped us off to this one. Majek Pictures, a production company set up by Michael Korbel and Anna Elizabeth James, two graduate students at USC Film...
Read moreAl Jazeera and NYVS.com
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11648023[/vimeo] Award winning Rhodri Davies, a videojournalist with Al Jazeera submitted a video on Mexico City’s water crisis yesterday on NYVS. I was delighted to see a story from an Al Jaz VJ. Every year, we give a $15,000...
Read moreMartin Luther King Jr and The Power of Television Images
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZLvSnr6s50&feature=related[/youtube] For many years I taught at NYU’s Journalism School, and one of the classes I taught was about television and the Civil Rights Movement Racism in America, instutional racism – the kind of racism that was enforced by...
Read morePitching a Killer Show
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPuni2FtKAY[/youtube] Here‘s the pitch A few months ago, Kevin Curl, friend and TCA grad came to us with a question – could we train a woman he found in NYÂ who might contribute to his fledgling webcast network, Future Dog....
Read moreVideo Crowd Sourcing – TED’s Chris Anderson
Wired does great graphics Yesterday, I was attending an all-day instructional class at Calumet in NY on how to use my new digital Hasselblad. The thing has more buttons on it than the space shuttle. Unfortunately (for me at...
Read moreWorld’s First Entirely Flipcam Feature Gets Hollywood Distribution
David Guy Levy Yesterday we told you about a Korean director who had shot the world’s first feature film on an iPhone. Today, David Guy Levy not only shot an entire feature, A Love Affair of Sorts, on a flipcam, but...
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