Live Stream From Anywhere
The Teradek VidiU Go is a bonded cellular device that allows you to pull in multiple “connections” in order to get the best streaming signal possible. That’s what bonded cellular is - a way to “pile” a bunch of internet connections together so you get the best connection possible. As I dug deeper I knew I had to get my hands on one.
Cellular Bonding and College Sports
LiveU invented and patented bonded cellular video transmission in 2008. At that time, LiveU changed the workflow of news acquisition, replacing expensive microwave trucks at a local station level with wearable backpack encoders. News stations could cover breaking news and weather events from virtually anywhere. Today we are disrupting how live sports is covered, replacing costly Fiber and Satellite truck solutions with portable IP encoders.
What Chekhov Knew About Sitcoms
His heyday was long before the advent of prime time comedy but I often paraphrase Anton Chekhov whenever an aspiring screenwriter suddenly throws a contrivance into the third act that had nary a passing reference in the first or second. The objective is always the same: to try to jumpstart a floundering plot with a last-ditch surprise in order to keep it from dribbling off with a whimper.
Why Athletics Departments are Live Streaming High School Sports
The S.A.R. High School Broadcasting Club in Bronx, New York was started in 2015 and is now one of the most popular clubs at the school. The club leverages the schools access to Google Apps for Education to provide students with online tools that extend the clubs online collaboration capabilities. Every student at the S.A.R. School has an iPad and a school-issued Google email address.
Henry Engineering Sportscaster Review
The SportsCaster is a specialized mixer and audio controller. It mixes the mics (and other sources), but it also creates the different headphone mixes I need for the broadcast team. And it gives me a “three-button Intercom” so I can selectively communicate with the announcers, the field reporter, and the camera ops.
Hightower Academy Revisited
Several years ago, we had the pleasure of talking with Ted Irving at Hightower Academy in Texas. Since that time, we have been following this program through all the success they have had. We felt that it was time to revisit this excellent program and share the progress with you. You can see our original article by clicking here.
Producing The Newscast
Conventional wisdom in broadcasting says your lead story will determine how many listeners or viewers will stick with your station for the rest of the newscast. However, at all-news stations and on web sites, nothing really leads the newscast because listeners and viewers are coming and going all the time. Even so, the half-hour newscast remains the standard for local stations around the nation, and it's important to know how such a newscast is created.
Dynamic Chase Scenes
If you make a car chase using only one camera angle, it will be the world's most boring chase, no matter how fast the cars are going. The key to making chase scenes work is an abundance of coverage. The more cuts in the scene, the more effective it tends to be. Adding the right soundtrack to accompany the visuals finishes off a more effective action scene. Videomaker's first mag and online tutorial will cover the technique of making exciting chase scenes.
Adding Graphics and Broadcast Animations to Student Video Productions
Broadcast graphics and animated elements are usually the finishing touches that are added to a broadcast to convey information, branding and overall production style of a broadcast. The animated elements add another level of professionalism and detail to your live or post produced video productions. These graphics also add a level of complexity that will hopefully challenge, engage and interest your students.
Video at MySpace or Yours
Using video and social networking as tools for education... SchoolTube TV is a consumer media company dedicated to supporting educational institutions and all their students to broadcast, watch, and share original videos as well as broadcast live educational topics worldwide through a web experience.
Never Run Out of Teaching Projects
Getting tired of the same old lesson plans from year to year? Maybe you have students that take your broadcast class more than once. RTDNF offers six lesson plans outlining activities that offer a range of perspectives from broadcast industry to ethical dilemmas often faced in journalism.
Stock Footage for Free
StockFootageForFree.com is a website dedicated to providing completely free stock footage from around the world that can be downloaded instantly and incorporated into any type of video editing project–personal or commercial.
How to Format Your Announcement Show
Everyone has different requirements for school announcements that are set up by the Principal, school needs and class schedule but many teachers want some ideas about the content, the order and elements that could help the show be professional and entertaining for the student body. I have a few tips with variations that could help you get a show off the ground for the first time or give you some new ideas if you are an old pro.
Planning a Mini-Documentary
After making contact with the subject of your documentary and receiving permission, ask for pictures or see if they have any film. B-roll will make the documentary interesting opposed to the character just talking the entire time. The visual aspect will connect what the subject is saying and make their story relevant to the viewer.
Why is News Important?
News is more than just facts and information; it is information that affects us. News affects how we live our lives, how we perform our jobs, how we function as students, and how we make decisions. We decide whether or not to carry an umbrella or cancel a picnic based on weather reports. We look to the media for sports scores, stock market reports and details about entertainment events.
Mic Types for Your Production
Have you wondered about HiZ versus LowZ, dynamic versus condenser, cardioid versus omnidirectional or shotguns and lavaliers versus handheld and boundary mics? Throughout this article, we will take a look at impedance, the two major ways microphones work, microphone pickup patterns and microphone styles. So sit back, relax and proceed through this quick look into the sometimes confusing world of microphone choice.
Sound Effects Activity
Here is a sound-only activity that students can assemble and learn about storytelling through sound along with the basics of sound design, editing, and mixing. The idea is to tell a 1-minute story using only sound effects. For the best results, don't let them use any human voice, i.e. no recognizable words. The project is all about sound effects and how they can be used to convey a coherent story.
Designing a Middle School TV Studio
Adobe’s Visual Communicator provides a teleprompter, video creation capabilities, and an entire library of customizable graphics, effects, titles, music, and templates.Most notably, the green screen and teleprompter features make this a very powerful, and effective program. Its ease of use makes it the perfect system for elementary and middle school broadcasts and mimics the way professional studios write and present news.
High School Broadcast Journalism Project
The High School Broadcast Journalism Project (HSBJ), a journalism education program of RTNDF, promotes broadcast journalism by helping high schools establish and maintain outstanding broadcast journalism programs. With HSBJ’s support, schools, teachers and students receive the information, training and resources needed to create and run successful radio, television and online multimedia programs.
Interview Styles
Interviews on TV are quite common, and not just during the news. Interviews are so popular, entire shows are built around the idea of one person asking another questions. There are different types of interviews and different ways of setting them up. The Oprah Winfrey show is different than 60 Minutes which is different than the Nightly News. We're going to look at several different interview styles, what they work best for, and how to prepare for and use them in your own work.