Recent content by Hank Scorpio

Who can tell me how you make a mic extender out of a broken hockey stick? The composite sticks are so light that they make perfect boom poles. Covering hockey I have seen crews, especially the Canadian TV crews use these a lot. I am wondering how you attach the screw-on mic clip to the stick...

Heading to Omaha for a story and I need to get some generic skyline/city shots. Wondering if someone can point me in the right direction so I don't wast a bunch of time driving around looking for shooting spots. Thanks in advance!

Calling all bloggers, "people with a website," and newspapers who now shoot video: TV photogs from competing stations have worked together in the field now for 60 or so years. We have developed a system of unwritten rules with each other that we all adhere to (for the most part) to ensure that...

I am heading to Baltimore for a shoot soon and I am looking for some scoop on where to go to get some city beauty shots from the Baltimore folks. Skyline, harbor, and other city identifying shots. Thanks

I have a bunch of video I want to post on YouTube. My files are too big, I would assume because of the quality of SX and P2, how do I make my stories smaller files to be able to post them on YouTube?

I am going to Vegas this Friday to shoot for a few days (not anything news related thank God) and I am looking for some help from some Vegas B-rollers. First of all I am coming from Minneapolis so 50 degrees is going to be a flippin heatwave. I'm assuming it's in the 50s this time of year out...

It's been a sick, crazy, fun ten year ride but I've had it. TV news scrutiny is in full effect, our station refuses to cover anything poitive, and it's truly brought me down. I cannot show up anywhere without my guard up, whether it's arguing constitutional rights with a$$hole cops, confronting...

I once asked an NFL head coach at a presser I was shooting if he planned on playing a certain running back more or less than another back on the team. The ONLY reason I asked was for info about my fantasy football team. That's not the craziest thing I've asked someone, but definately...

What's the oddest thing you have clipped a mic to? I'll start. I once mic'd up a roadkill to get the flies buzzing nats.

Well I guess nothing is sacred anymore.

So who covered the nazi rally in Lansing? How'd it go with the chain link fences? Were shooters allowed between the nazis and the protesters? I can't believe those idiots are still around. Don't they know they lost the war and their leader fed himself a bullet?

***DISCLAIMER*** Before everyone jumps down my throat, I know there are considerate still photogs. BUT, You don't own the base line. The baseline belongs to EVERY credentialed photog. Not just you. The leaning forward at the line with a two foot lens thing? It sucks. It gets in my shot...

I never have to shoot an interview is a white walled conference room again. Why do people (company people and some reporters)think this is "the perfect place" to shoot an interview? The table always takes up too much space, there's always too many chairs, there ends up only being, like a foot...

Say, "Hey! Do you need a white balance?" After you've already white balanced. Same goes for, "There's some good B-Roll here for you." Let's hear some more!

All TV News Staff To Film Video By United Press International Television stations WRKN-TV in Nashville and KRON-TV in San Francisco will give news department staff hand-held video cameras to gather news. The goal of the video journalist model is to maximize each station's news gathering...