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DC Crew hits the Nascar track in Richmond
It was only a matter of time until I got my eyes back on some Nascar action. Shooting for Fox Sports, I traversed south on I-95 to Richmond International Raceway, thankfully not during rush hour. I took part in shooting two segments for the pre-race show, both featuring hometown hero Denny Hamlin. I […]
Read More →Chicago Video Crew Shoots Playoff Hockey in Sunny Southern California
As a huge sports fan myself, one of my favorite sports to watch is hockey, and the only thing better than NHL hockey is NHL Playoff hockey. That’s why I was psyched when I got the assignment with NBC Sports to head down to Anaheim and shoot some player interviews with the Ducks who are […]
Read More →Finding new online storytelling forms
The Internet is really still in its infancy, and according to USC’s Koci Hernandez, that means journalists still have time to help mold it as a storytelling platform. “We have small opportunity while the Internet is still a baby to change the way things are done, presented or seen on this new creative platform,” says …
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Read More →ATL Talks Baseball for Braves Opener
This week, I got to work with MLB and shoot a few interviews for a film they are putting together. Day one ended up being a pretty good challenge. I’ve shot interviews in hotel rooms before, but I didn’t expect to walk into the room and see my producer had lifted up both beds and […]
Read More →Final Four Shot in Nashville for Turner Sports
The Women’s 2014 “Final Four” basketball tournament was shot in Music City by GTT’s Nashville Crew for Turner Sports. All four teams were shot for interviews, locker-room-drama, and of course the ultimate victory by the University of Connecticut (whose Men’s team had just won as well)! The shoot was done on the Panasonic HDX900 DVCPro […]
Read More →ATL -> Mississippi
For this shoot, our hero adventured to Jackson Mississippi for a couple days to shoot some green screen and b-roll. Prior to this, he had never done anything other than travel through the Magnolia State. Rolling into Jackson, he noticed there weren’t many people in habitant the metro area, but it consisted of a handful […]
Read More →TV anchoring tips from a pro
KRON4 anchor Marty Gonzalez calls them “TV Hands” — that’s when an anchor keeps the elbows in, hands at waist level and then talks using natural gestures. Gonzalez also teaches broadcast journalism at San Francisco State University and says it’s hard to get inexperienced anchors to stop clasping their hands together in a death grip …
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