Dean Sensui
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As mentioned, about 1.5 to 2x the size of your video frame. Not having to worry about the resolution is what I’m actually pointing out.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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You don’t have to worry about resolution at all in video. Just the total number of pixels.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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I’m working with 1080p30 as it makes tracking and green screen work a lot easier.
No more interlacing for me. It’s a technological answer to a problem with slow CRT’s from the 1940’s and no longer relevant.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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IMHO there are producers out there who have little or no respect for editors. They don’t know — and don’t care to know — about the art and craft of editing and what it is that editors contribute to a show.
In their limited understanding of the process, they believe that editors are there only to cut out the junk stuff. They don’t see how good editors can build a compelling story out of a pile of raw material.
Since they don’t understand the value of the work, that affects how much they’re willing to pay for it. I just had first-hand experience of that in our small company where one of our former partners (and show host) expressed zero respect for what it is his partners did as editors. He felt it was a purely mechanical process. We were trying to get him to appreciate the importance of good editing in making an entertaining product but never got very far. This guy had his opinions set in stone.
This individual never spent a single moment with either of us to see what it is that we did. And we spent thousands of hours over the past couple of years building episodes for our show. It’s not exactly Emmy material, but it still gets its fair share of an audience and is, in fact, the highest-rated show for that channel.
In the end, this former partner went his own merry way and created his own show on another channel. After watching a few episodes, what we expected is being confirmed: His new show has no sense of anticipation. There’s no buildup. And when the fun begins, it doesn’t provide the viewer with a sense of vicarious participation. And comments from viewers on other public forums agree with our own private assessment. It’s dry.
This guy had to hire cheap, inexperienced labor. The technical and aesthetic shortfalls proved it.
That’s the kind of producer that specifically seeks out inexperienced people who have their own gear. They can’t afford to build up a well-equipped suite — even if they knew how. And they certainly can’t afford to hire skilled editors. All they think they need is someone to chop out the junk stuff. And, sadly, they can’t see the difference between a compelling segment and a lifeless one.
In the long run, and in a market like ours here, sponsors are less likely to support a program like that because it presents their product to a diminishing audience. Cheap begets cheap and, soon enough, it brings about its own demise.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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[John Davidson] “We went to South Beach Miami last month and I promise, there was nothin’ in it for me!”
With so much talk about skin cancer I can’t see the benefits of just laying around in the sand, much less buck naked. And I would certainly be concerned about getting sunburned THERE!
Often the ones who shed their togs for obscure health benefits aren’t cheesecake types. If there were laws that spelled out aesthetic standards for public nudity then perhaps I’d appreciate it more.
There’s a nude beach here on Oahu at the base of Diamond Head, and yes, it’s THAT kind of nude beach. Ironically, when they do sunbathe nude they often do so along the cliffline at the edge of the sand. Unfortunately that exposes them to the occasional falling rock. That just doesn’t sound like it would make for a fun-filled afternoon.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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[Steve Wargo] “We are headed to Oshkosh for the fly-in during the last week of July. I’m shooting some stuff for an aviation client and we’re hunting for sponsors. Is your show sponsored?”
Hi Steve…
The intensity of the sun is something that a lot of people underestimate here. I usually cover up as much as possible. Someone spotted me coming back from fishing one day and told a friend that I dress nicely — with a long sleeved shirt. It’s one of those shirts from REI that’s supposed to provide sun protection and my usual attire on boats, etc.
Our show is sponsored and one of the difficult tasks is finding people willing to use our show to promote their products. Budgets are tight with everyone and while the total number of dollars spent on advertising hasn’t changed, the pie keeps getting cut into smaller pieces as more independent producers spring up. We have to go out and chase down sponsors again as we get started. But without new material we can’t show them what we’re up to. One of the chicken-and-egg quandries of the business.
The one time I visited Arizona was to see a distributor for home built airplanes. It was in Eloy and the company, Viking Aircraft, had neat little airplane called the Dragonfly. I went up for a test flight and the pilot seldom got more than 50 feet off the ground. Was fun. I have a friend in Los Angeles who flies his Rutan-designed Long EZ to Oshkosh about every year. It’s an amazing event from what I’ve read. There was even a guy here who attempted to fly his Long EZ from Hawaii to Oshkosh but only made it to the West Coast due to leg cramps.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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Steve…
If you get a chance and you like Japanese food, try Sansei restaurant in Kihei. If manager Tom Alejado is there, that’s my cousin. Tell him Dean and Mary said “hi”.
Our fishing show, by the way, is getting a makeover. We’re getting a new host lined up and we’ll be working a bit more on pacing as well as overall quality.
We don’t have the budget to go HD quite yet. But a lot of the pieces are already in place.
BTW, both Bob Pritchard (the other co-producer of the show) and I are over 50 and we both left steady jobs to take a major gamble on going independent. It’s been a rough road but a great education. Despite some setbacks there’s no regrets. I’m meeting some wonderful people along the way and have expanded my skill set considerably.
Enjoy Maui! Aloha!
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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[George Socka] “5) Don’t get me started on union job divisions. What makes a person operating a camera incapable of plugging in the power cord?”
Because he’s wearing a Steadicam rig and can’t bend over too easily?
🙂Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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[David Roth Weiss] “Now that’s where we differ. I’m an equal opportunity employer. I’d hire a cute female grip in a short skirt for that job…”
Here’s where I discovered I was getting older.
I was covering a college football game when the cheerleaders wearing the usual short skirts did a human pyramid right next to me.
I looked up and thought, “If she falls she’s gonna break my neck. Why do they need to do that right here!”
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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In my case my dad set the example of making sure you were known by your reputation.
He was a heavy machinery mechanic and in the local indusrty was known as the guy who could fix anything. He worked for Henry Kaiser back in the early ’60s and got the company’s foundering concrete tile plant runing beyond the design engineers’ expectations.
If he got fed up somewhere he’d just quit. Within a few weeks another company would quickly pick him up. So he was never out of work.
Even in retirement people would call him to come out and get something running. One particular time, someone had totally dissassembled a D9 bulldozer and dad had to go out and put this mess back together. He did, and I got a lesson as a teenager on how to operate one.
Eventually age caught up with him and he couldn’t physically do the work. Perhaps it’s his example of always working until you’re unable to work that has me unconcerned about the fact that I’m 50. Perhaps it’s also because I’m capable of easily keeping up both physically and technically with those who are 20 years younger than me.
Hopefully all of us can be rewarded for what we know and can do regardless of age. However, as noted, sometimes others in the industry are just plain cutthroat, and disregard traditional values of loyalty, fairness and craftsmanship.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii