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Orlando Crew Cooks With The Cooke’s For Rachael Ray
Orlando-based DP/Partner Dan Beckmann traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to capture one family’s attempt at cooking through Rachael’s 30 Minute Meals cookbook. Susan and Jeremy Cooke, have been using Rachel’s guide for nearly two years. They cook together as a family and marvel at how incredible the meals look and taste! ”We’ve come a long way […]
Read More →From classroom to newsroom: Start learning skills earlier
If you’re about to graduate, it may already be too late! OK, that’s an exaggeration, but reporter Allison Croghan says getting a job in TV news is easier when you start earlier than you may think. “I wish I would have been more hands-on earlier in my undergraduate studies,” says Croghan, who is a reporter […]
Born to Porter
With a name like Porter Versfelt III, he has to be good. So good that fate placed him behind the glass during the very first season of COPS, the show that convinced a generation of lenslingers to ditch their sticks and strap on some running shoes. I wa…
Read More →Born to Porter
With a name like Porter Versfelt III, he has to be good. So good that fate placed him behind the glass during the very first season of COPS, the show that convinced a generation of lenslingers to ditch their sticks and strap on some running shoes. I wa…
Read More →“Tornado Hits Town”
Just as Alley’s USS Paney story made an impact on many young cameramen when it was first shown, here’s a story from 1973 shot by Darrell Barton of WKY-TV that evidently made a mark on its respective generation. [Edit: As a update to this post, I have the physical 16mm newsfilm this story is on […]
Read More →The Simplest Lift
If you’re like me, you’ve watched the mid-air dismantling of that New Zealand helicopter about a dozen hundred times now. Then again, maybe you’re not as into ogling found footage as I. Odd, that… Anyway, let’s review: It happened on the Auckland wat…
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