Comments on: Rosenblum blogs, avoids subtlety

By: John Grabowski

John Grabowski — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:00:51 +0000

> Michael ties together threads from Edward III and the Battle of
> Crecy, Alexander Graham Bell, and Jacob Perkins, inventor of
> refrigeration.

All good salespeople do this. It’s part of the territory. It’s the critical thinker-reader’s job to deconstruct.

By: Allen

Allen — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:39:39 +0000

Shooting. End of discussion.

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:51:21 +0000

i’m for double naughts, now i’m heading out to the ceement pond to try to catch a peek of ellie may in her bikini.

By: Michael Gorman

Michael Gorman — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:24:18 +0000

I’m with our news partners in China on this one. I think we’re trying too hard. Recording seems to cover it, at least IMO.

By: thejethrochannel

thejethrochannel — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:06:53 +0000

how bout “the double naughts”?

By: Michael Rosenblum

Michael Rosenblum — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:48:58 +0000

while we’re on the subject of nomenclature, it was the ’70s, the ’80s, the ’90s, and now…. what do we call it, the 0s? The zeros? the pre-teens?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:47:10 +0000

Sheesh. You go out and either capture, acquire, gather or record clips/material. Even calling clips “footage” is archaic.

By: thebeijingchannel

thebeijingchannel — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:14:36 +0000

isn’t “recording” good enough?

By: Weaver

Weaver — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:02:36 +0000

With our XDCams we’ve had this dicussion because even ‘taping’ something is out. ‘Digitaling’ sounds stupid, but we’ve said it to be funny. ‘Discing’ doesn’t flow very well either.

And can you imagine if people using P2 flash cards told potential interviewees that they wanted to swing by and ‘Flash’ them.

Webster’s Dictionary almost clears it up. The definition of film, the verb, says to make a motion picture.

Motion Picture, the noun, is defined like this….

1 : a series of pictures projected on a screen in rapid succession with objects shown in successive positions slightly changed so as to produce the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move.

Since there is no mention of the medium in which the ‘film’ is gathered, I’m leaning toward changning my opinion of the use of film as an all emcompassing verb.

would help with a definition of filming that emcompassed any act of gathering a moving picture onto any medium, but it doesn’t quite go that far.

By: Michael Rosenblum

Michael Rosenblum — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:53:54 +0000

Filming is obviouslyl anachronistic, but then again so is taping. Shooting does not work. How about digitaling?

By: Steve Safran

Steve Safran — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:51:48 +0000

I’m just glad he didn’t say “shooting.”

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:44:08 +0000

I love this quote:

“How many Iraqis do you think have video camcorders? 10,000? 50,000? Every day they are filming what is happening to their country.”

Filming? As cutting edge as Mr. Rosenblum claims he is, he need to learn the terms of today.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:40:42 +0000

The interesting thing that the annecdotal evidence points to is that his interesting ideas have been embraced by a few newsrooms but the problem is that Michael doesn’t get to stick around and be the News Director. Part of the issue is that we’re still a few years away from having top level newsroom managers who have come up with the web and cheap non-linear editing experience, total understanding of the pros/cons. He’s way ahead of the curve and still a bit in front of technology. HD quality is a wrinkle that I haven’t seen him address well.

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:48:55 +0000

yeah, “those who can” put their name on their opinions.

By: 5w30

5w30 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:26:36 +0000

Sorry, more consultant b-s.
Guy’s ruined at least three newsrooms in the USA.
I guess those who can do … those who can’t …