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The best camera for a bunch of high-schoolers wanting to start making their own short films is the camera that you already have at your disposal. Camera support is important: a solid tripod with a good fluid head will handle much of what you need at this point, so don’t get distracted by shiny...

I’m listening to four voices in my head all at once right now. The show I’m on has two mixers handling four different interviews all at once. It’s a lot to listen to… on top of three PL channels in my ear.

Good, meaningful art makes people think. Some people don’t like thinking. That’s not to say that offending people is what qualifies meaningful art. No all good art offends people, and not all art that offends people is good. However, any time you present a deep topic, there will be haters...

This hits exactly on my earlier comment. I mean, they want a la carte cable, but they want cable. And we have come full-circle. But there’s a problem with a la carte packaging. Network companies may have a selection of network offerings that includes a couple of successful flagship networks...

Yeah, and they took Audie Cornish from NPR. (Personally, I think Wallace wanted an out from Fox anyway.) The whole thing was an ill-fated train wreck on multiple levels, but an even bigger gamble launching right before a major acquisition by a company like Discovery.

Movies have hit some delays for sure. Certain types of TV, maybe. But what I experienced at the beginning of the pandemic was an initial shut-down that lasted about 5 months, and then a sudden onslaught of production to catch up for the gap. I’ve been pretty much booked ever since. Food...

Low subscribers were definitely a concern, but it was only three weeks in. This had more to do with Discovery’s acquisition. Yeah, the whole thing was hindered by the fact that CNN couldn‘t put many of its daytime programming on streaming thanks to non-compete agreements with cable carriers...

The CNN+ situation had everything to do with the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, because their longer-term strategy is to consolidate streaming to a single platform. It‘s unfortunate that CNN+ actually launched - they should have known with the merger on the horizon - when it shouldn’t have...

omg... Savage, nate. Savage.

The Beach Boys shred always makes me belly laugh. So does this One Direction shred: And for good measure (you may have to open this one in YT):

You do know what a shred video is, yes?

Open them up to camera just a bit. Typically, when I’m running a 3-person interview or panel with 3 cameras, I keep a wide dead center, then use long lenses on the other two cameras for coverage. You can assign one coverage cam to one person (camera L, for example) and the other to cover between...

Wait, wait, wait... hold up. Tires work outside?!

I believe there’s been a mistake... I’m in the wrong class.

Which Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L? There are a few different versions. I assume, by the question, it’s not the internal zoom model? You might look at the Genustech GWMC. It’s solid, takes two 4x4 filters, one rotating. Clamps on to an adapter ring on the lens, so make sure you get one with the right...

My wife and I recently binged the first two seasons of “Locke & Key” on Netflix. A lot of bad reviews on IMDb, but we rather enjoyed it.

File Transfer Protocol. In the beforefore times of moving larger files over teh Interwebz, most web server hosts had FTP clients that you could log into, create directories, and upload your data. Nowadays, we have all sorts of cloud storage options like DropBox, Google Drive, WeTransfer, etc...

The standard format for audio for video/film is 24-bit, 48kHz Broadcast Wave File (BWF), or Wave file (.wav). However, you should be having conversations with the post team, specifically the post sound supervisor, about delivery specs. Most things these days are digital file transfer, often...

Where 1984, Minority Report, and Idiocracy intersect. Nope. No, thank you.