Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 10:03AM This is both incredibly funny, instantly recognizable and yet somehow instructive for anyone looking to a simple model for building an interesting news package. Corporate video has not even gotten this interesting....but we are working on it. Kudo's on this fantastic roasting of the format. (click here if you can't see the video)
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 9:14AM Here is a great look at story-telling as set up for a new version of a video game. From a technical perspective, a great 'behind the scenes' with green screen for all live action forcing all 750 shots to have backgrounds created in post. One of the most frustrating things is often the perception that green screen is the 'easy answer' to creating an environment and avoiding travel for a field shoot or challenging location. It is an option yes...but often it requires much more work. The specifics don't get very detailed on this aspect until about halfway through but notice the legions (legions...get it....never mind) of computer programmers and artists that are creating the backgrounds and tweaking the tracking to make it realistic.
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 1:00PM I can't tell you how inspiration and valuable this is. I was naive to who Don is or was....but the impact of 'Tell me a Story' is so on point. This is a great special edition of 60 minutes. I love the insight into the strucutre of how the stories are told, how the edges are pushed and the creative output that follows. What a life well lived. What a great set of guidelines and goals that can be pulled from this to say - how far can we go with how we tell stories on TechWiseTV? How can we change the way it is done? I love this. (click here if you cannot see the video).
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 8:58AM Regardless of where you stand on the hot-button issues of murdering the unborn or Focus on the Family - this is good discussion. I don't know whether this ad will air on the Super Bowl and now at this point, I don't know if it matters. The great outcome of this is the discussion that is already happening and now has perhaps now done a better job of raising awareness and intelligent discourse than any 30 second ad will ever do. Well done.