National Broadcasting Society convention
Well, here I am getting the final day started at the National Broadcasting Society / Alpha Epsilon Rho national convention in New York City. On my first day here Wednesday, there was a pretty good presentation from Adobe (http://blogs.adobe.com/jlevmedia/) and then conference kick off sessions Wednesday night.
Thursday, we took buses to Manhattan for tours of the morning shows and other media production facilities (the convention hotel is next to LaGuardia airport). I went on the tour that went to Alan Weiss Productions, where they make Teen Kidz News, among other things. And, they produce HotNewz for college campuses--college students who want to submit news packages should visit their web site to find out more: www.hotnewz.tv --yes, this is .tv not .com. During the afternoon there were several sessions held at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Friday and Saturday, back at the convention hotel I heard various speakers continue to talk about how tough things are in the industry right now, and remind students that media jobs are usually low pay and hard work in the first years--'you have to pay your dues.' I saw a great Adobe demo that followed up what Jason Levine had done Wednesday about Adobe Premiere and the overall CS4 Production Premium software. As a person who has moved more toward Final Cut Pro in recent years, this presentation as well as one from Avid on Saturday made me re-think that a bit. It seems university departments should try to do some training for each of these systems--even if one becomes the dominant 'project work' system for students in the department.
The NBS regional convention for my region (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico) will be in November 2009, in Austin, Texas and the next national NBS convention will be in Dallas in Spring 2010. Spending less on travel will be nice.
Thursday, we took buses to Manhattan for tours of the morning shows and other media production facilities (the convention hotel is next to LaGuardia airport). I went on the tour that went to Alan Weiss Productions, where they make Teen Kidz News, among other things. And, they produce HotNewz for college campuses--college students who want to submit news packages should visit their web site to find out more: www.hotnewz.tv --yes, this is .tv not .com. During the afternoon there were several sessions held at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Friday and Saturday, back at the convention hotel I heard various speakers continue to talk about how tough things are in the industry right now, and remind students that media jobs are usually low pay and hard work in the first years--'you have to pay your dues.' I saw a great Adobe demo that followed up what Jason Levine had done Wednesday about Adobe Premiere and the overall CS4 Production Premium software. As a person who has moved more toward Final Cut Pro in recent years, this presentation as well as one from Avid on Saturday made me re-think that a bit. It seems university departments should try to do some training for each of these systems--even if one becomes the dominant 'project work' system for students in the department.
The NBS regional convention for my region (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico) will be in November 2009, in Austin, Texas and the next national NBS convention will be in Dallas in Spring 2010. Spending less on travel will be nice.
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