I have said it over and over again, just because someone is in the right place at the right time, does not make them a photojournalist. It makes them a person with a camera, or, blech, a citizen journalist. A photojournalist is a person with a camera, training and an adherence to ethics and objectivity. Unfortunately CNN doesn’t it see it that way. … Continue Reading
If you have been paying any attention to the Alexa or the RED you really need to watch this. Fair warning – it’s got some profanity!
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It’s a big day today for digital cinema – The Arri is shipping. Not really something that I can afford to shoot with but I see this as driving the industry forward. I think that there will be a big impact on the HDSLR market as a direct result of the easy availability of these higher-end digital cinema cameras. … Continue Reading
First iPhone 4 Video that I’ve seen posted – check it out…
It’s pretty shaky – wonder when RedRock is going to have a shoulder rig for the phone… I can almost hear the directory telling the little girl to remember to lick her “ice cream” cone. I guess mashed potatoes don’t really lick that well 
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Shot and edited entirely on the iPhone 4 / iMovie App (in 48 hours).
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Here it is, the world premiere event you’ve all been waiting for!
Nerd mom has finally finished the My Muffintop video. The song is a parody of My Pokerface, by Lady Gaga, and is supposing what it’d be like if Lady Gaga had a few kids, and moved to suburban Los Angeles. It’s all very “Be Kind Rewind meets Lady Gaga”. Lyrics are up on my blog: www.mymomsanerd.blogspot.com. I’ll be back in a few days tell tall tales of living room film studios, sunburned toddler who won’t dance, and how you really can’t shoot the 5Dmkii freehand without a Red Rock support rig. Enjoy!
You know an idea’s time came about two or three years ago when the big boys of broadcasting jump on board. So when ABC said a couple of months ago that it was going to start relying on “digital journalists” it became clear that the era of the “one-man band” is officially here.
One-man (or woman) bands are nothing new; small local news operations have been using them for decades. But they are new at the networks. Gone are the days of a reporter going out on a story with a producer, camera operator and audio person in tow. In a world of declining ratings (and therefore ad revenue) for newscasts across the board and an instantaneous news cycle, the networks need a way to do it faster and do it cheaper. Now technology lets them do it. Sending out one person – two if they’re lucky – with a DV cam and a laptop to cover a story and feed it back via a broadband connection saves a lot of money.
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