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“Aliens” and “Blade Runner” director Ridley Scott, along with Scottish Director Kevin MacDonald and YouTube are prepping for the mammoth project called “Life in a Day.” They’re “crowd-sourcing” a movie that takes place entirely in 24 hours of July 24, 2010. You shoot a day in your life, send it to YouTube, and Scott and [...]

From: White House News Photographers Association Veteran CNN photojournalist, Bethany Swain has been awarded the 2010 White House News Photographers Association Video Photographer of the Year in the ‘Eyes of History™’ video contest. That could be the longest award title in the world – but doesn’t diminish the impressive feat. Congratulations to Swain on a [...]

I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is we didn’t get a lot of entries in the b-roll.net COMMERCIAL contest.  I was really excited about this contest and hoping to get tons of creative experiments, but it turns out we only received TWO. The good news is both entries are GREAT and [...]

We have some prizes to give away, and we want to give them to YOU. The folks at ENGcage want to give you a FREE in-truck camera cage. ($850 value) But wait! There’s MORE! The folks at ProSource want to give you a FREE VOCAS MB-210 Matte Box. ($600 value) What would you give for [...]

Congratulations to KMSP photographer, Spencer Driskill! He was randomly selected from the over 200 entries to win an Xtender lighting accessory system. Shawn Dennison, the inventor of  Xtender, graciously donated the prize – and will be shipping it out to Driskill in time to shoot some beautiful nightside shots for sweeps. Again, congratulations Spencer!

The folks at D-PRO want a random b-roller to receive a free Xtender lighting accessory. The Xtender is a cool invention that we first looked at during last year’s NAB. It is a must-have in the run-and-gun world of TV news. All you have to do for a chance to win is answer a few [...]