Another cool NAB item -- Vericorder for the Iphone

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Frank Shankwitz, Creator of Make-A-Wish

9500 Liberty -- Film on Immigration law in Virginia

Saturn 5 major Wow

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

What we learned today....

Mike Cutler from Canon was in today with gear for our evaluation; he left cameras, a Beachtek, an IDC Rig, a Red Rock Micro Event rig and a cool but pricey Iphone grip from Zacuto. Our goal is to create a hard spec for Gannett based on the Canon MKIV and a separate configuration on either the 5D or 7D. Will be testing with the dual audio method, Beachtek and direct into the Canon audio system. Am beginning to get an outline together on a standard training package. Best part was being turned on to the Bloom Hitler videos. Hilarous.Hitler on the 7D

A beautiful California Coast video by Phillip Bloom

"Pacific": Panasonic HPX 370/371 from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Sheriff Joe, EJ Montini

30 minute interview. Next time move them into the center of the room. Use real lighting. That way we can use longer lenses.

B-Roll testing for Immigration Protest

SB 1070 Immigration Protest from Dave Seibert on Vimeo.

Shot DSLR Broll (640X480) for testing on how long it would take to edit, export and transmit thru Sprint Card....shooting 30 minutes, import and editing about 15 minutes, export, transmit and captioning 10 minutes. Canon 5D, IDC Run and Gun rig, edit in AVID. Sennheiser MKE-400 mic and edited in Avid Composer, compressed with Adobe Media Encoder.

Reminder to update this video....Valley Metro Light Rail Crashes

Valley Metro Light Rail Collisions from Dave Seibert on Vimeo.

Next two weeks

A few good assignments in the works....Closing weekend of Turf Paradise, Arizona High School Rodeo in Buckeye, planning of Arizona High Country Lake project and finishing the long form videos for the Montini Project.

Biosphere 2

Tour the Wilderness area of Biosphere 2 located in Oracle, Arizona. Need to go back and shoot additional interviews with guests and broll.

Future of Photojournalism

http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/check-out-the-future-of-photography-the-current-issue-of-nieman-reports/

Why most newspaper videos are weak

Very interesting and helpful post form Colin Mulvany.
* Storytelling (making the transition from still images to video sequences)
* Bland Videos (no surprising revelations or engaging hooks)
* Structure (lack of dramatic narrative)
* Technical flaws (jarringly distracting audio and/or video glitches)
* Editing (lack of pacing, transitions, sequencing, layering, orchestration, audio mixing)
* Journalism (lack of basic reporting principles, the most frequent offense being the absence of multiple sources)

Critique: Duchess

1) Need to do multiple interviews
2) faster pace, sequence
3) include video

Take a ride in a $2.3million Bugatti

Veteran reflects on using the atomic bombs

Kermit Halden was a member of the Atomic Bomb Group preparing the aircraft Enola Gay and Bock Sock for dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Biosphere 2

Had a good start on Biosphere 2. Need another day to shoot people and grab some more audio.

Lightroom 3 Beta 2

Began using Lightroom 3 Beta 2 this week on a football project. Am assigned to shoot action for an interactive slideshow piece of all 80 ASU football players over two days. Overall good performance however LR is choking with folders more than 600 photos (or six gigs). This is on a new Macbook pro with 4 gigs of RAM...when the folders are smaller or breaking it up into a couple of collections performance comes back.