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Shoestring Journalism

November 12th, 2009 · → 2 Comments

Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema.
Last week I paid a visit to an old friend in television news. I watched ten screens in his office showing competing news stations and live feeds. I listened to his scanner buzzing with cop voices. His computer instant message system wanted his eyes and ears. [...]

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See Apple, Say Apple

June 25th, 2009 · → 5 Comments

There’s an expression often heard in edit rooms: “See apple, say apple.” It refers to the practice of having the narrator talk about something and then showing that very thing. If the narrator is talking about apples, then we have to show some apples. When you extend that “see apple” concept to the whole film, your work loses depth.

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Oh the Tangled Web We Weave

June 18th, 2009 · → 1 Comment

Social networking has a huge reach. Yes, there’s something vaguely totalitarian and Hitler-esque about having “followers” on Twitter. But Twitter has been used to get the word out about the fixed elections in Iran and to track emergency weather. Two million people are following Ashton Kutcher on Twitter. I know that Jane Fonda had a knee operation because she tweeted.

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What is Healing, Anyway?

April 2nd, 2009 · → 9 Comments

Healing is hard to quantify. Does it mean, “My back has stopped hurting by a factor of 45 percent?” Does it mean, “I don’t wake up at night because of those nightmares of being chased by thousands of cats. I only wake up now because I dream of 50 cats?” Does it simply mean, “I feel better?”

Not all healing involves ripping off the band aid and seeing the healing with your own eyes. It can be invisible.

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