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Ericjoel

the start of it all

Posted on January 21st, 2011 Written on Ericjoel's blog

Comments: 5

2006 I moved to Prague, left my dog with my cousins Jason and Katie, sold my car and rented out my house. I shut down my cell phone, canceled all my credit cards except one, opened up a citi bank account that had branches international. I was fried......34 years old and started having a mid life crisis. Everything was about work work work. You get no sleep, rest or time off when you sell residental real estate in chicago. It started out gang busters and soon it took over my world. Back to P

Tags : prague , real estate , work , fun , dog , baby , love , ski , food , cook , eat , travel , chili , doyoulikechili

designunlimited

Video Camera movements

Posted on March 21st, 2011 Written on designunlimited's blog

Comments: 5

Hello All My first post here. I have done some freelance gigs on New jersey Cultural events, primarily music concert and dance performances. Every now and then in my mind comes a thought, is it that how you handle your video camera during recording a show becomes important, or the actual content or the subject matter is the prime focus. What I feel when I am shooting a music concert, where 2 and more people are sitting and performing, I feel it is a dvisable to keep your camera fixed most of th

Tags : video camera movements , cultural shows , documenting , content is god

pfbentley

DAMN THE TORPEDOS, FULL SPEED AHEAD

Posted on June 3rd, 2011 Written on pfbentley's blog

Comments: 5

I’m PF Bentley and welcome to PF’s Corner a new blog/column/tech help and advice to the lovelorn on NYVS. I’ll be chiming in here when possible on whatever topics come to mind and answer some of your probing technical questions. A little about my background - I was a contract photographer for TIME Magazine for almost 20 years roaming the world but mainly shooting behind the scenes politics on the presidential campaigns, Capitol Hill and The White House. In 1993, I was introdu

Tags : PF BENTLEY , VIDEO , NYVS , DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

acollmer

Blip.tv does content deals with YouTube, NBC and others

Posted on July 28th, 2009 Written on acollmer's blog

Comments: 4

As part of this deal, Blip.tv will be able to place ads on thier users videos on Youtube.Â Â The question I have is this - are they planning on sharing that revenue back with the creators of the content?Â Â Â If so, we're starting to see the accelerating emergence of a money-making model for video creators who know what they're doing. Â

Tags : blip , blip , tv , youtube

jamesERIC

Honing the Title

Posted on February 9th, 2011 Written on jamesERIC's blog

Comments: 4

So I have the footage (pixelage) captured and rough-assembled in a viewer-trackable order. Time spent on the post-production tricky things, adjusting light values and tweaking the tint where it may help, stretched the time for emphasis where wanted. Sat back to enjoy (!) the in-progress artifact, and a voice-over script began to suggest itself. Write, re-write, re-rewrite and so forth. "Ahem...." (check volume level) Read, relax, read again. And again. Good, except for that one sentence. Did I

Tags : Title , Editing , Storytelling , Journalism

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