If It's Thursday, This Must Be TV

As we near the end of the term, my television production students are starting to seem really professional in their approach. The last few shows have been very focused. Today's show needs to be done and out live (to tape) from start to finish in one hour, though. We'll see how they do....

Back in Town

Left the city for a documentary shoot over the weekend, but I'm back now. Details soon. Above: a view from 34th Street.

Camera Test A

Panasonic GH1 "Stress Test" A from Ted Fisher on Vimeo.

My first session with the Panasonic GH1. The goal of the shoot was to find the camera's limits. Everything was shot handheld, seeking out conditions which might prove difficult on this type of hybrid system.

So I shot quite differently than one normally would. Rather than panning smoothly, avoiding shots with extreme or complex detail or aiming for the often-recommended shallow-depth-of-field look, I aimed to make the camera struggle.

I think it performed very well. The next test will include quite varied conditions and a different style of shooting. I'm hoping to do a low-light test as well.

Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE)

Dowser Video: Elizabeth Scharpf, Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) from Dowser on Vimeo.

The video above is the second piece I've edited for Dowser, a media organization that reports on "creative approaches to social change in order to help people understand how to build better communities and a better world."

If social change is your thing, then be sure and check out Maura Minsky, Scenarios USA as well.

Screening Tonight in Arizona

My short documentary To Get to the Other Side screens at the ASU Art Museum Fourteenth Annual Short Film and Video Festival TONIGHT.

If you see the film (or if you've seen it previously) please sign in at IMDB.COM and give it a rating.

ASU Art Museum Film & Video Festival Preview

This Saturday, my film To Get to the Other Side will screen at the ASU Art Museum Fourteenth Annual Short Film and Video Festival.

Above is a news video preview of the event,including a brief glimpse of 12th and 3rd in Brooklyn, which showed at last year's festival.

Scenarios, U.S.A.

Maura Minsky, Scenarios USA from Dowser on Vimeo.

Interested in Social Justice? Take a look at Dowser. I like the approach they are taking to "Social Change" and the people creating it. (I helped edit the video above.) Watch the video, then visit the Dowser site and introduce your friends to them.

Creative Approaches to Social Change

Maura Minsky, Scenarios USA from Dowser on Vimeo.

Dowser is a media organization that reports on "creative approaches to social change in order to help people understand how to build better communities and a better world." You can't go wrong with that.

Today is the soft launch of their new Web site, so I hope you'll visit them. I edited four short videos for them this year, and the movie above is the first posted online. More soon. Enjoy.