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NFL Films Highlights Their Best Work Online
Those tight spiral shots always blew my mind. Even as a kid, when I didn’t completely understand the game of football, those slow-motion film clips told me everything I needed to know. They made me want to learn about the game, but more importantly, they made me want to be Read More →
KOB Reporter does iPhone LIVE Shot
From: Al Tompkins Poynter Online “Reporter Jeremy Jojola filed a live video story last week for KOB-TV in Albuquerque, N.M., using an iPhone and the Web site Qik.com. Jojola is one of many journalists who have begun experimenting with new ways of recording live video reports using their phones and Read More →
NPR Looks into the TV Media Biz
From: NPR.org NPR Media Corespondent, David Folkenflik, delves into the struggle all TV news organizations are dealing with – how to stay afloat. Radio and television networks and newspapers are struggling to survive the transformation to the digital age. As established media business models become outmoded because of the Internet, Read More →
Why P2 Cards Eventually Die
Amanda Emily (photog, historian and technical genius) posted a brilliant explanation of P2 cards on her site, AmandaEmily.com. With the new E-Series P2 cards coming out, the question arose about why a P2 card “goes bad.” Amanda takes a stab at it, and explains it well with nice and simple Read More →
iPhone Video “Madness”
There has been a lot of talk on the b-roll.net FORUM about video on an iPhone. Jim Sitton shared this clip from WFOR-TV in Miami. It’s about the hype of the new iPhone 3Gs – shot completely with an iPhone.
Read More →BECOMING THE NEWS – The Sequel
Contributed by John Woods
Well, it happened. No, not a car wreck. And no, I didn’t get a “dewie” after a long day of covering car wrecks. I was assaulted. And by a girl, none the less! Well, I guess “technically” there is no gender, because I was assaulted by Mother Nature (insert collective groan)…
b-roll.net Makes it into Print
It was like going back to school and working on a term paper, but I recently finished an article that appears in the most recent issue of Broadcast Engineering. The March 2009 issue of the industry magazine just started shipping, and you can find my article, “What’s in your bag?” Read More →