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With a juvenile, crude and amateurish headline like this one, writer Kyle Whitmire, Second Front" and WELD Birmingham (www.weldbham.com)can't be seen as any kind of credible source for news.
"Poll: Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way"
http://weldbham.com/secondfront/2012/02/24/poll-santorum-comes-from-behind-in-alabama-three-way/
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Monday, May 17, 2010
Atlanta Now On The Map For Movie & TV Production
NEW MOVIE STUDIO COMING TO ATLANTA
Move over Hollywood!
Many of us in the movie and TV production community here in Atlanta knew months ago that EUE/Screen Gems planned to lease the property at the former Lakewood Fairgrounds near downtown for production. Now it is official.
The Atlanta Journal-Constituion has published an article claiming that this is the first "state-of-the-art" movie production facility in Atlanta. Well, not quite. Not yet.
http://www.ajc.com/business/ready-for-your-close-528580.html
Riverwood Studios in Senoia, Georgia south of Atlanta has been operational for years. The Tyler Perry Studios and huge backlot with standing street sets opened in November 2008. While Riverwood is open to the public for rental and while Mr. Perry's studio is not, his facility is the latest up-to-date production complex in Atlanta.
Word on the street is that Screen Gems will first produce a FAST AND FURIOUS sequel at their new Lakewood complex using existing buildings. State-of-the-art upgrades and new construction will come at some point in the future.
Versfelt Communications Group shot for EUE/Screen Gems at the 2008 BET Hip Hop Awards held in Atlanta. The focus was on the stars and creative executives behind NOTORIOUS who attended the awards event and a lavish after-party at an Atlanta mansion.
Many in the film and TV production community and the Georgia Production Partnership (GPP) have worked hard for many years to encourage production in Atlanta and Georgia. The lobbying for the state-wide film production tax incentives worked in a big way. In 2008 and 2009 Atlanta hosted more productions here than Los Angeles did.
Hollywood is looking east and south. Not a week goes by that I don't receive many job applicants from experienced movie and TV production people defecting to Atlanta.
Let's hope that the new competition for jobs won't freeze out Atlanta-based crew who are very qualified as well.
Here are more stories about the Screen Gems move:
http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=144106
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/may/17/studio-expands-outside-of-state/
http://www.wsbtv.com/entertainment/23532642/detail.html
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/entertainment/Film-Studio-Coming-to-Atlanta-051310
http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2010/05/10/daily35.html
FREE MUSIC LIBRARY FOR POST-PRODUCTION
Last evening I stumbled across this subsidiary of Wikipedia offering free and often public domain music for movie and TV production: Wiki Commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_sound
Wiki Commons also offers free-use photos as well. This is a huge resource for those of us who are producing content.
Move over Hollywood!
Many of us in the movie and TV production community here in Atlanta knew months ago that EUE/Screen Gems planned to lease the property at the former Lakewood Fairgrounds near downtown for production. Now it is official.
The Atlanta Journal-Constituion has published an article claiming that this is the first "state-of-the-art" movie production facility in Atlanta. Well, not quite. Not yet.
http://www.ajc.com/business/ready-for-your-close-528580.html
Riverwood Studios in Senoia, Georgia south of Atlanta has been operational for years. The Tyler Perry Studios and huge backlot with standing street sets opened in November 2008. While Riverwood is open to the public for rental and while Mr. Perry's studio is not, his facility is the latest up-to-date production complex in Atlanta.
Word on the street is that Screen Gems will first produce a FAST AND FURIOUS sequel at their new Lakewood complex using existing buildings. State-of-the-art upgrades and new construction will come at some point in the future.
Versfelt Communications Group shot for EUE/Screen Gems at the 2008 BET Hip Hop Awards held in Atlanta. The focus was on the stars and creative executives behind NOTORIOUS who attended the awards event and a lavish after-party at an Atlanta mansion.
Many in the film and TV production community and the Georgia Production Partnership (GPP) have worked hard for many years to encourage production in Atlanta and Georgia. The lobbying for the state-wide film production tax incentives worked in a big way. In 2008 and 2009 Atlanta hosted more productions here than Los Angeles did.
Hollywood is looking east and south. Not a week goes by that I don't receive many job applicants from experienced movie and TV production people defecting to Atlanta.
Let's hope that the new competition for jobs won't freeze out Atlanta-based crew who are very qualified as well.
Here are more stories about the Screen Gems move:
http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=144106
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/may/17/studio-expands-outside-of-state/
http://www.wsbtv.com/entertainment/23532642/detail.html
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/entertainment/Film-Studio-Coming-to-Atlanta-051310
http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2010/05/10/daily35.html
FREE MUSIC LIBRARY FOR POST-PRODUCTION
Last evening I stumbled across this subsidiary of Wikipedia offering free and often public domain music for movie and TV production: Wiki Commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_sound
Wiki Commons also offers free-use photos as well. This is a huge resource for those of us who are producing content.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas Evening Thoughts
It is very late Christmas night and I am the only one awake in the house. At times like this, especially this time of year, it is natural to think of the past.
Reading the comments tonight on a web forum to the posting of a very graphic video from Australia about drunk driving, I thought back to my cub TV reporter days.
In 1980 in Abilene, Texas (United States) I worked as Chief Photographer and Police Reporter for the NBC TV affiliate there, KRBC-TV.
In my short career as a photojournalist up to that point I had covered more than my share of tragic traffic accidents for nightly newscasts.
One particular cold and rainy night I once again got out of a warm bed in the wee hours of the morning after my police scanner announced yet another fatal wreck outside town. I slept with my scanner on in those days. Now, I don't know how I did it.
The accident was caused by a drunk driver. A male driver of the other car - the victim in this crash - was killed. We had a rule not to show graphic film (we shot colour 16mm film back then) of dead bodies. However, this night I deviated from that rule slightly.
I wanted to make a statement about the senselessness of drunk driving. So after shooting all of the usual shots of wrecked cars, car parts strewn along the highway, police and flashing police lights to illustrate the story, I shot one more shot.
It was an extreme close-up of the dead driver's hand, hanging limply out of the shattered window. A small dribble of blood trickled down the back of his hand. I did not show his face or a wide-shot of his body slumped at the wheel.
The story aired at 6 pm the next day and created a firestorm. The local newspaper had a front-page, above-the-fold story about the controversy about this one short 2-3 second film shot in my story. The newspaper and many people in Abilene didn't approve of showing the dead man's hand.
I understood then and still understand their complaint. Looking back some thirty years now it seems like it was such an innocent time then in America compared to what is seen on television today. However, I still believe I did the right thing.
I made my point. Later, the families of the victims of drunk driving accidents thanked me also.
By the way, the drunk driver who caused the accident survived, as so many of them do.
So now through New Year's eve, please don't drive even the least bit tipsy. Your family and those of others will thank you for it.
Merry Christmas.
NOTE: I have linked the Australian DUI public service TV ad here. It is VERY graphic, but so effective in making its lesson clear.
Reading the comments tonight on a web forum to the posting of a very graphic video from Australia about drunk driving, I thought back to my cub TV reporter days.
In 1980 in Abilene, Texas (United States) I worked as Chief Photographer and Police Reporter for the NBC TV affiliate there, KRBC-TV.
In my short career as a photojournalist up to that point I had covered more than my share of tragic traffic accidents for nightly newscasts.
One particular cold and rainy night I once again got out of a warm bed in the wee hours of the morning after my police scanner announced yet another fatal wreck outside town. I slept with my scanner on in those days. Now, I don't know how I did it.
The accident was caused by a drunk driver. A male driver of the other car - the victim in this crash - was killed. We had a rule not to show graphic film (we shot colour 16mm film back then) of dead bodies. However, this night I deviated from that rule slightly.
I wanted to make a statement about the senselessness of drunk driving. So after shooting all of the usual shots of wrecked cars, car parts strewn along the highway, police and flashing police lights to illustrate the story, I shot one more shot.
It was an extreme close-up of the dead driver's hand, hanging limply out of the shattered window. A small dribble of blood trickled down the back of his hand. I did not show his face or a wide-shot of his body slumped at the wheel.
The story aired at 6 pm the next day and created a firestorm. The local newspaper had a front-page, above-the-fold story about the controversy about this one short 2-3 second film shot in my story. The newspaper and many people in Abilene didn't approve of showing the dead man's hand.
I understood then and still understand their complaint. Looking back some thirty years now it seems like it was such an innocent time then in America compared to what is seen on television today. However, I still believe I did the right thing.
I made my point. Later, the families of the victims of drunk driving accidents thanked me also.
By the way, the drunk driver who caused the accident survived, as so many of them do.
So now through New Year's eve, please don't drive even the least bit tipsy. Your family and those of others will thank you for it.
Merry Christmas.
NOTE: I have linked the Australian DUI public service TV ad here. It is VERY graphic, but so effective in making its lesson clear.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Tyler Perry's Mother Dies
Condolences and prayers for Tyler Perry upon news that his mother died this week.
USA Today article
He has been a loyal and caring client over the years and while I cannot call him a close personal friend, I do feel to be a part of his extended family. I am blessed to have my mother and father with us still. I can't imagine how Tyler is grieving right now.
Please keep him and his family in your prayers.
USA Today article
He has been a loyal and caring client over the years and while I cannot call him a close personal friend, I do feel to be a part of his extended family. I am blessed to have my mother and father with us still. I can't imagine how Tyler is grieving right now.
Please keep him and his family in your prayers.
VAMPIRE DIARIES EPK Material Now On-Line
Check out this newly-posted EPK behind-the-scenes video posted on You Tube showing my camera work on the CW Network TV series VAMPIRE DIARIES:
Vampire Diaries EPK video.
Vampire Diaries EPK video.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Vampire Diaries Poster Art
For you diehard VAMPIRE DIARIES fans this news ...
... new poster art is available now.
VCGTV shot the EPK material for this new hit TV series.
... new poster art is available now.
VCGTV shot the EPK material for this new hit TV series.
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