TV news folk are well-equipped to shoot images of events happening right in front of them. We can produce pictures of fires or images of people talking with near perfection. But put us in a situation that requires us to make interesting the routine settings of real life, and our equipment sometimes isn’t sufficient. Real [...]
Archive for January, 2012
23 Jan
Winne Watch 1.23.12
“He’s agreed to talk to Mark Winne and nobody else.” Those spirit-draining words came from Lt. Sean Smith, the new temporary PIO for the Gwinnett County Sheriff. We were at the Gwinnett County jail, which was holding inmate Victor Hill. Hill, a former sheriff, had been arrested following a public corruption indictment. Every local media [...]
16 Jan
Indecision 2012
When I learned that a crew from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart would shoot a piece in Ellijay, I initially hadn’t considered turning it into a local news story. They were doing a piece on some Mitt Romney supporters whose over-the-top enthusiasm for the milquetoast Republican seemed newsworthy when I did the piece in [...]
9 Jan
The empty gesture
When we speak, most of us gesture. We can’t help it. It’s natural. Especially when we’re being emphatic, the hands and arms tend to move in conjunction with the words. The best of us do so with the style of a symphony conductor, with words and movements that fully communicate. Even on the phone, gesturing [...]
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