News reached me (via the excellent Newspaper video group) that the season end for House was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II. According to the petapixel blog Greg Yaitanes, the director of the show answered questions on twitter about the show. Most surprising for me was the suggestion that he didn’t use any special [...]

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God: What are you doing now? King Arthur: Averting our eyes, oh Lord. God: Well, don’t. It’s just like those miserable psalms, always so depressing. Now knock it off! A bit of link bait that title I know. But imagine that you had followed the link and before you could read the first line of [...]

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CNN have updated their website. I like the layout although I think the boxed content and the ad on the right are a little to similar and the movement of the ad is very distracting. But they aren’t going to move their ad’s around are they. There is a shift in emphasis towards video on [...]

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife I’m doing a lot more video this year as part of my digital teaching. One reason for that is we have bought a boat load of Flip video recorders to play with. That means we can do video without the big camera issues. Whilst pulling together resources for video [...]

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CNN’s ireport has posed an interesting question Faced with declining readership and a worsening economy, many newspapers are grappling with whether to stop the presses. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News recently closed its doors, while the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is moving to an online-only format. How does this affect you? Do you read the newspaper every morning [...]

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See that video above? That’s video from the BBC website. Video from the BBC on my blog. How cool is that? That’s right. You can now embed BBC video in to your own site with T&C’s This is for use on your personal website Use the supplied code and don’t edit the video or audio [...]

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It’s grim times out there for video at the moment. The tag cloud above, generated from twitter, tells a familiar story. As Colin Mulvany recently put it Newspaper produced video is at a crossroads. As many U.S. publications turn inward to focus on their traditional print products, many online producers are wondering if they should [...]

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I’m holed up in the Middlesbrough Central Travelodge and getting some kind of insight in to what living in halls must be like. To say the room is basic is,well, to give it more credit then it deserves. But hey, at least I have great stuff like this to look at. From a practical stand [...]

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