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?” on page 26. It all started with a question posted on the b-roll.net FORUM titled, “What is your favorite “indispensable”…
After watching this, I realize that I should go back to putting Kimberlea in front of the camera, and not me. Here’s the latest on NAB preps from a guy who should stay behind the lens.
From: Kevin Johnson Training DVD 60 minutes Retail: $40.00 vortexmedia.com You can’t teach an old dog new tricks… or so they say. Even though career wise, I’m not an “old dog” (more like a mid-life crisis dog), I’ve been doing this enough that I feel like I have my bag of tricks filled just fine. So when Doug Jensen of Vortex Media sent me a copy of his DVD, “How…
Even though the Labor Day weekend has passed by, that doesn’t mean summer is over yet. The noonday sun still sits high in the sky. The late burning orb keeps us from having to pull out a light kit for 6pm live shots, but it can also be a shot in the eye. One of the most important aspects of a video camera is the viewfinder. If you can’t see…
From: Kevin Johnson I am a young man… with an old man’s back. If he wants it back, he is more than welcome to it! Even though television cameras have become lighter over the years, heaving that 25-pound beast onto my shoulder on a daily basis gets old. My back doesn’t like long shoots off the sticks… but sometimes duty calls. When the ship and crews of the USS Theodore…