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How to shoot good vox pops (MOS)
Whatever you call them, “man on the street” interviews are a staple of TV news. Done well, they can reflect public opinion on important issues in your community. Done badly, they’re just a waste of air time. So how do you shoot them well? Start by thinking very carefully about where to go. Many stations …
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Read More →How a TV newscast is produced
ABC affiliate WMTW in Portland, Maine, produces four and a half hours of news each weekday plus weekend morning and evening newscasts with an on-air staff of 16. This week, the Hearst-owned station put together a behind-the-scenes video to show what it takes to get the 5:30 p.m. newscast on the air. Enjoy!
Read More →Slow News Day
“Lawn Chair Larry” Walters wasn’t the first man to take flight via balloons. Walters had an accidental predecessor a few decades earlier in the small town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine on September 28, 1937 with a group of bored news photographers who decided to shoot a story on a Read More →
3 great tips for better TV stories
KARE-11′s Boyd Huppert is an amazing storyteller. A workshop with him may be just about equivalent to a master class in TV news. At the Excellence in Journalism conference, he shared some of the things he wished he had known when he first started reporting — here are Advancing the Story’s favorites: 1. Keep interview …
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Read More →Chicago Video Crew spends the day in Madison for CBS Gamechangers
As Autumn fast approaches, Go To Team Chicago is in full swing traveling throughout the Midwest covering all sorts of sporting events. Today we were in Madison, Wisconsin to shoot a basketball camp run by Wesley Matthews of the Portland Trailblazers. I grabbed my 5D and headed out early that morning from Chicago and made the […]
Read More →Chicago Video Crew kicks off College Football Season at Northwestern
College Football has finally arrived in 2014, and with that means plenty of travel for the B1G Ten Network and others for us at Go To Team. Since Chicago is centrally located in the heart of Big Ten country I have been getting the opportunity to travel to some of the schools in order to […]
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