Is Katie Couric Toast? Is Network News Next?
Network News Signing Off? Many Journalists See Uncertain Future For Nightly TV Broadcasts and Fault Current Coverage I missed this article by Carroll Doherty, Associate Director, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press dated April 15, 2008. Here’s a link to the story I think that what’s next might be some kind of […]
Read PostAlec Baldwin All Time Insult / TV Reviewing
On 60 Minutes tonight, Alec Baldwin was interviewed by Morley Safer about his mouth, his career, his failed marriage with actress Kim Bassinger and the infamous recording of his frightful attack on his daughter. He was asked about his ex-wife’s lawyer whom he called a “300-pound. homunculus with a face like a clenched fist. ” […]
Read PostGreat Idea – Great Execution – Great Cross Platform Campaign
How do you make an ordinary product memorable? Tie it to a great idea. You may have spotted Lincoln Financial Group’s new ad campaign which is basically, Meet Your Future Self. In the commercial present selfs meet ‘future selves’ (think Back to the Future). I found three commercials on YouTube. The sound is out of […]
Read PostWhat the Proliferation of Video on News Sites is Telling Us
The quality of video streaming on the web is improving on a weekly basis. Watching the election results last night was almost like watching live TV. A few glitches and halts, but on the whole I turned the TV off, yet I felt like I was watching it on my computer. I bounced around between […]
Read PostTV Thoughts on the Masters
In the days of high production values, it’s nice to see that the Masters golf tournament — using simple, elegant , ‘old school’ production values — is still of one of the great golf tournaments in the game… and a lot of fun to watch. It’s something you see a lot in this blog, the […]
Read Postthe web show — QuarterLife.com
This was taken from my former blog on blogger.com and was posted…. Wednesday, November 14, 2007 QuarterLife.com watched this new web show brought to us by the boys from thirysomething yet? looks like tv on the web, with a weak pretend blog tie-in that seems like artifice. the production values are good, story is […]
Read Postthe Story is King
the Story is King This was excerpted from another blog I used to write on blogger, and was posted Friday, October 26, 2007 Telling believable, real, relatable stories is the key to all great film and video making. This blog centers on creativity and thought process that goes into making great moving pictures. Let’s start […]
Read PostHome Editing for the web
The category of professional editing systems was once dominated by one player – Avid. Today, it’s a war between Avid and Apple’s platform with new entrants nibbling away at the edges — Sony and Adobe. For those looking to do some basic editing for home videos or postings on the web Avid’s VideoSpin is worth […]
Read Posthow viral are viral videos?
In his November ’07 column in TechCrunch, Dan Greenberg talks about the BIG secret about viral videos – they’re not what you think – they’re plants. We have all thought about this now and then while perusing YouTube. While perhaps not all videos are professionally made, Greenberg’s rules and suggestions for optimizing a video to […]
Read PostRunning into a Car?
Running into a Car? This was a post on a blog i used to write. Posted on… Wednesday, October 24, 2007 This commercial for a car has a jogger run into the car, not once but twice, because it’s not noticable? Looks like it hurt a lot to me. I am watching the baseball playoffs […]
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