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Archive for January 2011

Egypt: A Nation Forced Offline

By Brittany Darwell. Video production and music composition by Michael Marantz.

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Podcamp 2011

What is Podcamp? Well, according to the web site Podcamp is a “user-generated conference, or “unconference”, focused on new-media like blogging, podcasting, social media, etc. Anyone who wants to share their interests or experience or get a conversation going is welcome to present, and people in the audience are encourage to

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Egypt Protests via Social Media

BBC Network Africa’s Akwasi Sarpong spoke to freelance video journalist, Mohammed Abdul Fatah, who was arrested after being caught up in protests in Egypt’s second city of Alexandria. Much of what is happening in Egypt is being censored. Freelance journalist Mohamed Abdelfattah said to the CBC Tuesday’s protests in Alexandria,

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Movie shot on iPhone hits South Korean theaters

Award-winning filmmaker Park Chan-wook has shot a 30-minute film, called “Night Fishing,” using only an iPhone 4. The movie is about a man who goes fishing at night and finds a female shaman. “Night Fishing” was shot using up to 10 iPhones filming simultaneously from different angles. About $130,000 was

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Screen Capture

A good screen capture tool is something you’ll probably wish you had at some point. Whether you need it for a quick YouTube grab or to capture some online news bit for a portfolio or story, finding a good one can be tricky. The key is ease of use. If

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When Cameras are Everywhere

When it comes to CCTV surveillance in public places Canada’s not quite as up there as  the UK . That’s not to say there aren’t cameras everywhere like they seem to be in the Bourne Trilogy. But today everyone has one. I never leave the house without mine because, like

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WordPress Plugin for Videos

I just downloaded a great plugin for running videos on a WordPress blog. The plugin is called TubePress and it’ll work for either YouTube or Vimeo. You can see an example here. It’s a video gallery I added to the VJ Resources page. Just some helpful clips you might find

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Should You Work for Free

This is beautiful! Anyone in this business, shooting video or stills, has probably been asked to work for free. I’ve been asked more times than I can count and it’s sad knowing someone down the line will actually take up that offer. Well, here’s a handy flow chart to help

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Panasonic ‘Shoot It. Share It’ Documentary Winner

MOVING ON follows the story of a young family who travels to Africa to change things, only to find that they were the ones who were changed. In their journey, they are able to find beauty and love despite years of injustice and suffering through the amazing people they befriend

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Backpack Journalism – an overview

www.studentfilmmakers.com has a well written article posted on their site about backpack journalism. It’s written by Carl Filoreto and contains interviews with Award-Winning BP Journalist Mara Schiavocampo of NBC News and Denver Journalist Jennie Castor of KMGH-TV. Filoreto runs Elk Run Productions, Inc. A good read on a stormy east

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