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Posted via email from beFrank’s posterous The dilemma was that my truck was at the station and I needed to pick it up for Dellis to use to haul some educational crap (That’s why I have a truck instead of a sports car). I could have had my lovely wif…
Read More →Friday Night Football
A vintage TV news story from my 16mm newsfilm collection as an example of what was considered award-winning photography back in the 70s (the photographer who shot this won NPPA PoY in 1974).
This particular 1973 WKY-TV (KFOR) story is about Friday nig…
Fox Movietone News Sound Crew No. 71
Members of Fox Movietone News’ sound crew no. 71 outside of Beijing’s Forbidden City after becoming the first Western news crew to shoot a news story with sound within its walls.
Left to right: cameramen Allyn Alexander and Hai-Sheng “Newsreel” Wong an…
Gimme Three Steps…
Leave that firm grasp of global trade policies at home, what you really need to cover a Presidential Election is a good step-stool. Just ask Joel Wade, New Hampshire news shooter and Senior Fellow of The Lenslinger Institute. That’s him, wedged in the …
Read More →Gimme Three Steps…
Leave that firm grasp of global trade policies at home, what you really need to cover a Presidential Election is a good step-stool. Just ask Joel Wade, New Hampshire news shooter and Senior Fellow of The Lenslinger Institute. That’s him, wedged in the …
Read More →Tips for better stand-ups
Love them or hate them, TV reporters have to do stand-ups.A stand-up can help to establish a reporter’s credibility and build a relationship with viewers, giving them a face to put with the voice. The trouble is, too many stand-ups today go overboard with unmotivated movement, cheesy props or “reporter involvement,” in an effort to […]