My friends Andrew Baron and Jeff Pulver pull back the curtain just a bit on a new partnership they’re staging to continue their good work exploding TV: “My next clue will reveal which other shows are a part of the studio and then I will go on to explain why I believe it’s a much better business than Podshow or Podtech.”
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Exploding TV: exploding coverage
First, I started reading Om et al’s NewTeeVee and now I see another blog devoted to the explosion: Web TV Wire.
Exploding TV: The ad dollars trickle in
Beet.TV gets its first video ads from Google. There’s the first trickle. Now wait for Google to create an ad infrastructure for video everywhere. The comes the flood.
A tale of three tapes
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the infrastructure, effort, and expense of big TV v. small. Lately, I took along my video camera as I did a few things with ABC 20/20, Frontline, and CNBC.com and, as a demonstration, whipped together this little video. I tried to show the effort that goes into a simple interview in network news: four pros who spent hours setting up and taking down a shoot and who put great effort into getting it just right (and they were all nice enough to put up with me taping them). I wanted to make fun of the TV convention of B-roll, in which they get allegedly casual footage of you being yourself so they can use it in editing (and then I made two seconds of my own). And I was fascinated by CNBC.com’s smaller TV for the internet. My video quality is crap (something to do with getting video off my old camcorder, since replaced) and my editing is amateurish — but then, that’s the point.
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: LATER: A commenter thought I was being snarky about the guys having to wait between shoots. Not at all. Want to make that clear. As I say in the video, these guys are real pros and they do their jobs extremely well and they were also terribly nice explaining some of what they do to me. Ditto the Frontline people. It’s not their fault that the form has come to expect B-roll. What fascinates me is the contrast between the time-honored way to shoot TV and the new possibilities. That’s my point.
She’s back
So Amanda Congdon has her videoblog up on ABCNews.com and I like it. It’s impressive that they let her be her without trying to transform Amanda into an anchor or overproduce her. It’s also impressive that she gets a rave review in The New York Times. I’ll be eager to see how the big tube uses her. Maybe she can replace Rosie on The View, eh?
