Skillset for success…

Been doing some gigs with a local producer and on the road we often discuss the woes of the world with slant on video production. She tries to hire local and has worked with seasoned pros and local university students and has seen large gaps in what said students don't know. So here's a quick …

Immersed in a frozen world…

...the world of digital still photography. Got called back to teach as a stand-in for a former fellow teacher out on maternity leave. The class: P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y. Aka painting with light. Wow...talk about reliving the past. The class has me riding the Way-Back Machine to the sixties and early seventies as I began my journey as …

Rethinking my position…

We are now officially three weeks into the new school year and I'm looking over the changes I made in how I teach - and rethinking whether I should have done them. Originally I always started students off with Basic Shots - got the cameras into their hands and them out in the field to …

A whole new crop…

...of students. Man, I should NEVER have thought English was difficult compared to two sections of broadcasting and one of drama. The big difference is I live and breathe video, so I'm loving it. Rather than putting VIDEO cameras into the paws of my eager charges, I'm handing the cameras over in still mode and …