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Atlanta Video Crew Is DEGA Bound Baby! Woo!
“DEGA BOUND BABY!” The amount of times I read that painted on on the windows of race viewers trucks was astounding. Even more than that, hearing that phrase never gets old – I even started saying it myself by the end of the weekend. Friday morning, I headed to Talladega Superspeedway with a Sony F5 […]
Read More →Dallas Crew Covers Walmart’s Talent Center Grand Opening
I know what you’re thinking. What the heck is a “Talent Center?” A Talent Center is basically where new Walmart employees go to get trained. Walmart’s new state of the art Talent Center looks to create a more efficient training method. Anyways, I was there to cover the event. I was shooting on the C300 […]
Read More →Dallas Crew Covers Final Four for Turner Sports
I was so pumped to hear that Dallas would be hosting the NCAA’s Final Four Tournament and National Championship game. It’s been awhile since I’ve covered sports. For the past 7 months I’ve been in Waco, TX working on a new HGTV show called “Fixer Upper.” Now that we’ve wrapped on that project I can […]
Read More →“You don’t save souls in an empty church”
In the spirit of “throwback Thursday” and since I’m not into posting selfies, a look back to the dawn of the consultant era of TV news. From the March 19, 1974 edition of the Sarasota Journal, an article about the cynical depravity of local TV news of the era thanks Read More →
Dallas Crew DPs HGTV’s New Show, “Fixer Upper”
Almost a year ago I had the great opportunity to work on the pilot of a possible HGTV show based in Waco, TX. It was a wonderful experience and I was so eager to see what would become of it. Months went by before I received word that the show had been picked up. How […]
Read More →Pro Am Taurus Jib
I travel quite a bit these days and I’m always looking for production gear that can travel with me. The gear that I’m looking for has to fit two criteria; it has to boost production value, and it has to be easy to pack. When I was asked to review the Pro Am Taurus, I was very interested in how well it would travel. I’m happy to say that I was pleasantly surprised. First impressions Jibs and cranes can provide a great value to any production but they are usually very complicated to set up and use. For me, that […]
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TV news directors reveal their resume-watching secrets
With December graduations complete and the holidays over, news directors all around the country will be watching a lot of resume reels, but not for very long. News director Lee Thompson oversees KTVZ/KFXO in Bend, Oregon. He says he gives job candidates all of :10 before he decides whether they’re worth looking at longer. If not, he …
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