Archive for December, 2007

Dec 19 2007

The secret to success 3

Published by peter under art, photojournalism, videojournalists

As mentioned before: “The secret to success is not being committed to success. The secret to success is being committed to preparing for success” - Tony Robbins.
Annie Leibowitz and her 11 assistants spent 3 weeks preparing for her 30 minute photo shoot with H.M Queen Elizabeth II. Despite the controversy the results confirmed […]

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Dec 14 2007

Tips for shooting Christmas Lights

Published by peter under videojournalists

Photo by Michael DeHaan
Shooting Christmas lights at night - getting the lights to pop will often involve producing distracting grain in the shadows. Restricting the picture gain and crushing the blacks with setup/pedestal/black level will help but another solution, as the strobist explains, is to shoot at dusk:

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Dec 13 2007

Web video that works - news you can use

Published by peter under online video, videojournalists

A 12/8 article in TVweek notes that Beet.tv generates $15,000 per month in ad revenue and iJustine $1,000. BeetTV “includes video interviews with top technology executives”. iJustine’s “video sendup of her gargantuan iPhone bill drew about 8 million views”.
Alexa shows that iJustine has twice the traffic of Beet.tv. […]

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Dec 10 2007

User Generated Ads [UGA]

Published by peter under online video, videojournalists

“This video, advertised in small, creative-oriented print publications, and on Facebook and MySpace, directs users to changeadvertisingforever.com, actually the home of user-generated ad site GeniusRocket.com. Mark Walsh, CEO of the company—as well as co-founder of Air America Radio and an Internet strategist on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign…” offering users up to $20,000 for ads […]

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Dec 06 2007

Sony need Leo Fender

Published by peter under video tech

Q - why is this guy smiling?
A - because he has a brand new solid state (of the art) Sony PMW-EX1
Wrong!
correct answer - because he has a tripod for his brand new solid state
(of the art) Sony PMW-EX1.

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Dec 05 2007

Isolation in a networked world

Published by peter under news

MSM has a thing or two to learn about the new online world. Trying to isolate your readers is a lost cause - linking provides the juice that makes the net work.
Newspaper.coms won’t provide links that direct readers away from their sites, that I guess is understandable. Misguided in my opinion, but understandable.
But why […]

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Dec 05 2007

Video flip books

Published by peter under online video

15 seconds of video in a flip book - $8 - motionbooks from motionbox. via venturebeat

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Dec 03 2007

Deja vu all over again

Published by peter under news, videojournalists

Just how salacious is the British press? Today over at guardian.com the most read article is about NASA experiments involving astronauts having sex in space (missionary position doesn’t work). I guess there is nothing too surprising about the popularity of the article - except that it is 7 years old.  Astro-naughty. 

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