This was a quickie that Jenna Cho shot on a Monday night and I edited and posted when I came in on Tuesday morning. While I don’t love editing other people’s work, I was glad to have plenty of variety to work from.
Read more "Garde Transformed into Digital Canvas"Our latest episode of Song Spinner features the Red Hot Stove Tops. It was fun to see how the song Iris transformed from one person’s idea to a fully developed song for a trio. I learned a few good lessons for next time when recording the trio segment. First, we need to get a better […]
Read more "Song Sinner – Red Hot Stove Tops"I heard about the Coast Guard Academy’s punter/goalie Will Leffler last year when my colleague Mike DiMauro wrote a column about him. I was determined not to miss this opportunity this year, so I had it on my to do list all summer. Turns out there was only one Saturday where soccer and football both […]
Read more "Coast Guard’s Will Leffler: Two Sports, One Day"There are several burger fanatics in our newsroom who were delighted when Five Guys Burger and Fries opened in Mystic a few years ago. I hadn’t been a huge burger guy until I tried Five Guys, now I’m a devotee. I almost took it personally when Jake’s Wayback Burgers opened right down the street in […]
Read more "Five Guys vs. Jake’s: Mystic Burger Showdown"High school football is always big for us in the fall. This year, as a preview to our weekly game coverage, I put together preview videos for some of the more prominent teams in the area. I started out on a Friday night at Montville, where I was actually able to get some action during […]
Read more "High School Football Previews"We’re big on anniversaries here at the newspaper, and I guess in the news media in general. It seems like any time there’s a significant anniversary of a significant event, we run out to find someone who remembers it. I put together a big documentary project on the 70th anniversary of the Hurricane of 1938. […]
Read more "Montville Police remember 9/11"For our latest episode of Song Spinner, a video series exploring what goes into writing a song, Rick Koster decided to profile John Fries. John picked his song ‘Vacancy’ and suggested shooting in the basement of Thames River Wine and Spirits, a location that John thought would match the mood of the song. Rick and […]
Read more "Song Spinner with John Fries – a three-camera shoot in a wine shop basement"We added a new tool to our video toolbox this month: a tiny little HD camera made by GoPro. The camera has a fisheye lens, shoots 720p or 1080p, has an interval timer for photos, and comes in a waterproof housing. It also has an incredible number of mounting options. For our first video with […]
Read more "Stand up paddle surfing with GoPro HD"Over the last few years we’ve tried a couple of different ways to incorporate video into our political coverage. We’ve tried posting a full one-hour debate between candidates for Congress. We tried an edited version of a debate with an introduction by the reporter. We tried shooting candidates’ endorsement interviews and publishing an edited ~10 […]
Read more "Candidate interviews: trying something new"This is the fourth in the occasional Song Spinner series that Rick Koster and I do. This was the first one that I shot on my own with three cameras. Since the raw content of each episode is basically a performance of a song and an interview, it would be tough to get enough visual […]
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