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The Announcement
Doesn’t matter what it is: draft pick, nervous jury verdict, new sherbert flavor. When camera crews collect in corridors waiting for something solid to be said, one can almost taste the inquietude. Hey, you’d get antsy too if the only thing standing be…
Read More →Charleston Crew joins Celebs at NBA All Star Weekend for Turner
GTT’s Charleston based DP Dave Baker and Craig Goodale spent the weekend in Orlando with Turner backstage For The NBA All Star Game. Using the Panasonic HDX900 paired with a Nanoflash drive allowed the crew to shoot High Definition vignettes with comedian and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star JB Smoove and upload them to NBA.com moments […]
Read More →The Shilling Floor
Ahh, Hollywood. You can backpedal down a spiral staircase with a fresh death-row inmate and four photogs you don’t even like and STILL not suffer the concussion that is a red carpet event. I knew that going into my latest American Idol mission and asid…
Read More →The Shilling Floor
Ahh, Hollywood. You can backpedal down a spiral staircase with a fresh death-row inmate and four photogs you don’t even like and STILL not suffer the concussion that is a red carpet event. I knew that going into my latest American Idol mission and asid…
Read More →Arvid’s new pool toy
Why did WGN photog Arvid Carlson decided to go swimming with a Filmo back in 1969? Novel angle for a story perhaps? Eh, who knows? Though GoPro has a nice little waterproof camera for those types of shots these days… Not going to name any names, but I will point out that Filmo after being […]
Read More →How to shoot news with a smartphone
Remember the Flip cam? Those smaller cameras put news gathering capabilities in the hands of anyone with a desire to do it. To maximize the quality of the video, a list of best practices in video news gathering was developed. Now that smartphones with video capability are everywhere, it’s worth talking again about techniques that […]
Shooting it out…
Well wasn’t THAT fun? Yesterday Larry Nance and I moseyed on over to our local community college campus in search of a good backdrop to shoot illustrations for The Basics of Videojournalism and got more than we expected. Former McNair broadcasting student Louis Martinez and Larry’s son Amani accompanied us as both models and assistants. […]