Carl’s presentation on “backpack journalism” at the Science Museum, last Tuesday, took a look at how new camera, editing and transmission technologies have created possibilities and liabilities for the video (or should we still say “television”?) journalist. On the plus…

May 4, Showtime 7:30: I’m doing a presentation at Miami’s Science Museum on “Backpack Journalism.” The nuts and bolts of the 50 pound (not me, the gear), all-in-one producer, reporter, shooter, editor, satellite tech — the cut-rate combo (“do you…

Today, I use two small High Definition cameras to give simultaneous “close-up” and “medium” shots. With matching cameras and the ability to line up the two videos on the non-linear edit system’s “timeline,” cutting back and forth between the cameras…

With the advent of the camcorder in the 1980s, the “one-man band,” that weighed-down lumbering figure from the local news station, could actually have some mobility and become a videographer. Now, technology has taken us that next step, not only…

Who knew? It seems I’ve been a “Preditor” and didn’t even know it. In case you’re as behind the times as I was, a “Preditor” is a PRoducer EDITOR who, shooting his own material, can get to a location, shoot…

The day after the 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti, Carl got called by Austrian television to cover the disaster. After scrambling for gear and some provisions, he was on a plane bound for the Dominican Republic. An overnight convoy from Santo…

The Japanese artist Jun Kaneko has been creating huge artworks since he came to the U.S. almost 50 years ago. When the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach, Florida installed an exhibit of his works we were on hand to document…

There are memorable shoots and MEMORABLE SHOOTS. This one falls into the latter category. We were on location in Arizona filming a series of programs for a British children’s show called Cat’s Eyes. We were wafted over the hallowed Monument…

“Tell Your Story,” a standing-room only workshop on capturing oral histories, packed out the meeting room at our local library, last night. Kathy demonstrated interviewing and listening techniques in a conversation with Nat DeLeon, groundskeeper and horticulturalist at the historic…

Back in the chopper again — this time for German television. We’re setting off to shoot another ocean-front estate bought with diverted investor funds. Was this chopper tiny? We think some kid on the ground had joystick control.