Mark Pope
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I’ll leave your name off, and good suggestion. Thanks
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I thought your expansions were good, Mark. I am going to revise the guide. I’m not sure I’m going to go into much more detail on some sections. Here’s a little background on myself and the guide. I’m a freelance Producer/Writer/Editor. Have been for about 6 years. Prior to that I worked as an employee in several TV stations for about 10 years. Prior to that I was a Radio Production Director in markets small to large. So for many years I’ve been dealing with Broadcast Salespeople and their clients.
The guide began as an instructional piece for new salespeople at a regional cable news organization. I didn’t want to go into much depth with them. My experience with many new and even experienced Salespeople is that they will smile and shake their head, and not take in one word you say about something. I had to keep it simple.
Since I decided to put this on the web as an html piece I see that it’s kind of taking on a broader character. I think what I may do, especially with longer posts like yours, is to create a separate page titled something like “other points of view” and copy and paste (with a few edits) the piece with attribution credited, of course.
Thanks for your input.
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“Dolly shots” … that’s the term I was looking for. I used to work with an old photographer (videographer) who used to gripe every time I asked for a zoom. He carried a track in his truck, but we often wouldn’t have time to set it up. We worked for a TV station, and it was all about grinding it out. He retired a couple years ago … the best camera guy I ever worked with.
Could you give me a little more clarification on DVE’s as a separate category. In my thinking I include them under “wipes”, but maybe I’m wrong. The world of computer generated effects deserves mention in any case. When I first discovered Media Composer (in the early 90’s) I couldn’t get enough. I’m more conservative now. Now when I add a transition I actually think about whether it adds to the spot.
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To both the previous posts … good suggestions. Just what I’m looking for. Thanks for taking the time to check it out.