Recent content by Shaky & Blue

How have I changed? I quit television. I went back to school and received a second degree in Finance. I passed the CPA exam and received my license. I went to work for Deloitte in Nashville. I hated Deloitte and hated Nashville, so one day I just quit and moved to New Orleans. I got an...

What is it? I've asked this question a few times and either been ignored or received a non-answer while he instead went off on his sales pitch again. Rosenblum says his newsgathering model is based on a beat system. What kind of beat system did he develop for WKRN? After studying the station...

I saw A Very Long Engagement today, and I wanted to alert my fellow students of the moving image to a modern masterpiece in visual storytelling. This is the new movie from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the guy who directed Amelie. It stars the same actress, Audrey Tautou, and features many of the same...

I've noticed that lately there are a number of posts on here complaining about a situation with a reporter or news director or producer or whatever. Each one of these posts asks the same age-old question: "Does it get any better?" I would just like to tell all you youngsters, once and for all...

I am in the market for a portable media center for work and play. Not just an MP3 player, but something that can record video files as well. I'm primarily looking at these two units: SmartDisk Flash Trax FTX80 80 GB MP3 Player and CF Recorder Archos AV480 80 GB Video Player / Recorder and...

Compliments of Hurricane Ivan: "WBMA reporter Christopher Sign was in a tough position... sitting on the coast, watching a station vehicle get slammed against a concrete wall... then discovering there was no way out." Somebody get that photog to log on here and tell us about it.

Here's a job listing I noticed. Anybody interested? Job Title: Audio and Camera Technical Assistant Location: New York, NY Employer: Magnet Media, Inc. Employment Type: Part Time Description: Magnet Media, Inc., is a creative training production company, which produces the award-winning...

We have a lot of DC folks who frequent this board. Any of you work for NBC in DC or have contacts over there? I have a question for someone in the know. Please email me at extrashaky@yahoo.com.

I bet a lot of us are gonna be asking for this for Christmas: http://www.leatherman.com/products/tools/chargeXTi/default.asp Click the button that says "Go to Charge Site." Sweet.

Here's a listing recently posted on TVJobs: So WFMY is going in the direction of Rosenblum's video journalists, even if they are giving it their own cute little title. Comments?

Normally I would agree with you. But in this case, it sounds like the reporter jumped the fence for the camera to demonstrate how easy it would be for a terrorist to circumvent security measures. It's one thing to protect work product when it provides evidence of someone else committing a...

I have waited most of the day to post this to see if I'm still pissed off enough about it to bring it to light, and it turns out that I am. <rant> This morning I attended a press conference for a number of former diplomats and military personnel who have a bone to pick with the current US...

For the writers among us, I highly suggest seeing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It's the latest from Charlie Kaufman, the goofball who gave us Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. It's a brilliantly written work, probably his best writing to date. I wish...

On another thread, Photog Cowboi expressed her disdain for CNN's low starting salaries ($22K or so) for their news clerk "VJ" positions. Granted, that's low for Atlanta, but she seems to have the impression that entry-level news jobs or entry-level shooter jobs at local stations pay better...

It's been a weird day. This morning when I came to work I noticed that my battery charger wasn't working. At all. Dead. Since there's only one camera in my office, there's only one battery charger. Since there's only one battery charger (which was dead), I figured we had a big problem. But...