Cyndy Green
A shot visit to my roots…
…as a teacher. I never actually left the land of video but have been retired from teaching for some three plus years now. Last month I returned to Middle College High School where I went through the horror of learning how to teach. That was a truly tumultuous journey…from a single Digital Video Production class Read More →
Know your rights…
Bad experiences teach valuable lessons. And one of these stems from the question of who owns your video. If you don’t keep track of who hired you and who you sold it to and the terms of agreement you may be SOL (somewhat to extremely out of luck). The following is over-generalized and meant only Read More →
Post “retirement” life…
Retirement means different things to different people. For some it is the sheer joy of not working…kicking back and relaxing. For others it is travel, while for some it is hellish boredom. For me it is doing exactly what I want to do. And that, of course, is shooting and editing. In moderation with a Read More →
Skillset for success…
Been doing some gigs with a local producer and on the road we often discuss the woes of the world with slant on video production. She tries to hire local and has worked with seasoned pros and local university students and has seen large gaps in what said students don’t know. So here’s a quick Read More →
Traveling alone in my head…
…news photogs are lost souls on the run…proverbial poets without a country…visionaries who give eyes to what others cannot stomach, yet visionaries who are vilified in their own communities. We document the pivotal public watershed events and also the private pain of the nameless. Our eyes may seem glazed, but they’re bouncing back what dances Read More →
Shameless self-promotion…
While I’ve got your eyes and ears, let me plug the book Larry Nance and I have been laboring over for the past several years. The Basics of Videojournalism. This is a hands-on book written by two experienced pros that focuses on what you need to know to tell visual stories. Critical are knowledge of Read More →
Going all academic on ya…
I like to challenge myself and do read the occasional academic paper. Just stumbled on a new one that explores an old and much loved theme: The Decisive Moment. This concept was hammered into my teenage brain in community college by the great Edwin Schwyn, who rocked and ruled the photography department at San Joaquin Read More →