NEW iPhone Golden Hour App (0)

Here in DC, days are finally getting longer. At least long enough to prevent the need for changing gels from daylight to tungsten between the 5 and 6pm live shots. It’s nice to think it’s only going to get better (until the Summer Solstice).
It’s always helpful to know when you’re going to need gels for [...]

KGTV’s Joe Little Shows How to Be a OMB (0)

From: b-roll.net FORUM
You have to hand it to Joe Little.  His one-man-band (or “Digital Correspondent”) stories make it look easy – and strangely, a little fun. He’s mastered creative shooting and editing to the point that you can’t tell he’s doing it all himself.
His latest video is a “day in the life” story – [...]

Let’s Go Camping (1)

From: David Dahlquist, Freelance News Photographer San Juan Capistrano, CA
I was covering a three day breast cancer walk last month and we were on location 24/7 for all three days. While shooting interviews with some of the volunteers at night in small dome tents. I needed to light the interviews but did not want that [...]

How to put together a TV news package? (Comments Off)

From: Advancing the Story
Sometimes it’s fun to poke fun ourselves and British humorist, and journalist Charlie Brooker is particularly good at it.  In the following segment, he explains how to put together the essential elements of a TV pkg.

The truth can be painful, can’t it? In doing a search for the video, I also stumbled [...]

FOR SALE Almost New PDW 350 HD XDcam Fujinon 16×4.6 w/ 2X HD Lens (0)

Sony PDW-F350 XDCAM HD camcorder with Fujinon HS16×4.6BE RM lens.
Less than 30 hours.
Latest software upgrades, in perfect condition with tripod plate.
The FUJI lens may be the best lens they make, 16X with a 2X at 4.6 wide, very wide.
$29,000
Cartoni FOCUS head and carbon legs, 2 handles
$1500
Sony EX1, 83hrs, 8 GIG Sony Card, Charger, Bought new, [...]

Ion Audio Creates “2-Faced” Video Camera (1)

From: Uncrate
Ion Audio plans to release the Ion Twin Video in Q2 of 2010. This little “wonder-cam” shoots and records from 2 cameras on opposite sides. That way, you can shoot the all important “action – re-action” with one camera.
The target audience is YouTube, but I see this as the VJ camera of the future.
Specs [...]

Charlie Brooker takes a Swipe at a TV News Pkg (0)

From: b-roll.net FORUM
I’ve only caught it a few times on YouTube, but I’m a big fan of Charlie Brooker’s BBC 4 show Newswipe. It’s a funny and biting look at the way TV news is delivered. Think of it as Jon Stewart and Frontline working together to do a documentary about the news biz – [...]