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“don’t fly in unsafe ships”
In 1937, newsreel execs were invited to basically tell how they tried to kill their camera crews out on an assigned story. Walter Bredin, the assignment editor for Hearst Metrotone let Charlie Mack relate how he almost bought the farm twice on one story in his submission. The story that Read More →
Artistic Attempts
It cost me a considerable chunk of cash to have my Canon 5D MK II and a couple of lenses repaired.My gear has been kind of wonky for a while now, but I’ve always worked around it and never paid it much attention.I took part in a workshop back in Novemb…
Read More →“What Price Incentives?”
One of the battles often fought during the early days of news gathering – huge microphones placed in the middle of shots. Unlike say with today’s wireless lavs for example, its was kinda hard to hide the Western Electric 47a’s the sound newsreels originally started out with before technological changes Read More →
Another Day Riding the Rails
I’ve done this before, so I mention this as more “a matter of fact” than placing any importance on it. Before and after I take off from work for anything more than a couple of days, I have to leave my take home news van at the station. Not …
Read More →Better TV producing: The morning show
According to this year’s RTDNA survey, when TV stations add newscasts, they add morning shows. The big winner was weekend mornings. Over 20% of the news directors who added newscasts listed Saturday morning, Sunday morning or both. Next came the early morning on weekdays, with the 4 am hour and 5 am hour each getting …
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Read More →Fast, Not Furious
I just really think it was cool that I was there the night that Vin Diesel addressed the crowd of fans who had come out to the site where Paul Walker died. The studio (from what I heard) had arranged for some private time for the friends and family of …
Read More →A shot visit to my roots…
…as a teacher. I never actually left the land of video but have been retired from teaching for some three plus years now. Last month I returned to Middle College High School where I went through the horror of learning how to teach. That was a truly tumultuous journey…from a single Digital Video Production class Read More →