Product Photography – Kiwanis TV Auction 2012
Product placement photography from the 2012 Kiwanis TV Auction.
Tag: Television
Golden Globes 2011 Predictions
Edit: Bold predictions were correct. 8 of 25 (32%) Best Motion Picture – Drama The King’s Speech Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Colin Firth – The King’s Speech Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical Tied: Alice in Wonderland or The Kids Are All Right Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical Emma Stone – Easy A Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical Jake Gyllenhaal – Love And Other Drugs Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Amy Adams – The Fighter Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Michael Douglas – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Best Animated Feature Film Toy Story 3 Best Foreign Language Film I Am Love (Italy) Best Director – Motion Picture David O. Russell – The Fighter Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right Best Original Score – Motion Picture Danny Elfman – Alice in Wonderland Best Original Song –…
LED vs. LCD
This week I was looking into buying a new TV. I know for sure that I’m not looking at a plasma. When the sales representative was explaining the different TVs she started describing LED TVs as better TVs. This led to the question, isn’t a LED TV a LCD display. The answer I got was no it is better than a LCD, that it worked like a LED stop light that the LEDs change colour. This is wrong! All LED TVs are LCD TVs but all LCD TVs are not LED TVs. What is LCD? It is basically like the old fashion calculators, as an electric current hits a liquid crystal (the LC in LCD) it rotates the crystal changing the wave lengths to make a RGBK {Red, Green, Blue, and Black} (or in a few RGBYK {adds Yellow}) to the back light. Then what’s the diff? The difference is in the back-light. A TV referred to by the store as a LCD TV is in-fact a lit in the back by a fluorescent back-light. This back-light will last a ;long time but will eventually burn out. This is similar to the monitor that you are likely reading this on, like a laptop or cell phone screen (most…
2010 Golden Globe Award Predictions
Once again as the award season approaches here are my predictions for the 2010 Golden Globe Awards tonight. Best Motion Picture – Drama Up In The Air Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Morgan Freeman – Invictus Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical Julie & Julia Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical Sandra Bullock – The Proposal Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Matt Damon – Invictus Best Animated Feature Film Fantastic Mr. Fox Best Foreign Language Film The Maid (La Nana) (Chile) Best Director – Motion Picture Jason Reitman – Up In The Air Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – Up In The Air Best Original Score – Motion Picture Karen O and Carter Burwell – Where The Wild Things Are…
Fox, Time Warner Cable reach deal to avoid blackout – Yahoo! Canada News
In the view of what may be in line for Canada over the next year in the camps of the Fee-for-carriage debate between “Save Local” and “Stop the TV Tax.” Although this seems unfathomable in the current landscape, the near future will see broadcast, cable, and satellite a thing of the past to internet based distribution methods. Why pay for 100’s of channels that you do not watch? Why can the creators of the content not just distribute themselves? With devices like the Roku player, Apple TV, PS3, Xbox 360, and many others, we can feasibly get HD to your TV. Problems with getting broadband will als be a thing of the past soon as 4G LTE cellular networks with 51 mb/s connections will make getting fast internet to people easier and cheaper. Even more so in less that 5 years with 5G “In the last 12 months talks between cable operators and program providers have become even more tense. Programmers have been seeking better affiliate fees as they have seen advertising revenue hurt by the U.S. economic downturn and remain uncertain about the future of TV advertising as more marketers turn to the Web.” Yinka Adegoke for Reuters. Fox,…
Open Letter to my MP on Fee for Carriage
Today I checked my e-mail hand found this letter from my cable television provider Rogers Cable. Dear Rogers Cable Customer: {snip} I am now writing to inform you of yet another broadcasting policy proposal that is under consideration by the CRTC After rejecting it twice, the CRTC has reintroduced the idea of having a fee-for-carriage: a payment to Canadian over the air broadcasters that could ultimately end up costing cable and satellite TV subscribers between $5 and $10 per month!The proposal is being championed by over the air television networks such as CTV and Global (Canwest Media). These companies also own highly profitable specialty channels, such as TSN and History, and therefore overall are financially healthy.Furthermore, the CRTC has suggested that if the cable and satellite distributors don’t go along with the fee-for-carriage scheme, the television signals of American network stations, (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and PBS) which we have distributed since cable TV began, will be taken away. The “fee for carriage” proposal is strongly opposed by Rogers and most other cable and satellite distributors.You as a cable TV customer can take a definitive position to oppose this new tax, called “fee-for-carriage”.To do so you should contact the CRTC…
Why not to “Save Local”
Today I seem ads on CTVGlobeMedia stations that are urging the government to require cable/satellite distributors to pay for distributing the signal. I think this is just plain wrong. Here in Saint John there are 4 broadcast stations CBAT (CBC Fredericton but licensed and has its main transmitter in Saint John), CKLT (Has no programming differences from CJCH (CTV Atlantic) in Halifax, NS), CIHF-TV-2 (a semi satellite of CIHF-TV known as Global Maritimes from Halifax.), and CBAFT-1 which is a re-transmitter of CBAFT the Radio-Canada Moncton feed. When it comes to local programming CTV is the absolute worst, as I have noted before at most has 2 stories from the Saint John area and 4-5 total from the entire Province of New Brunswick on a good day. Global TV despite their severe cut backs have managed to keep their news stories basically equal per province. The basics is that all 4 of these broadcasters offer their signals for free over-the-air (a.k.a. poverty-vision). The cable company simply re-transmits the feed via an antenna to cables to the subscribers. Why should we pay to have something that we get for free anyway? In fact this even benefits the TV stations by making…
A drop in the bucket… err… table
Who is left to tell the tail abount the drop. This may be just a little drop of coffee on the table, but who will tell the world. It was interesting to learn the only part of CBC during these layoffs are the CBC.ca department. The web seems to now finally be changing the directon of media. The idea that you don’t need huge television systems, broadcast transmitters, and printing presses to the people. To those ends there is now not a need for the content to suffe either. The question however is how will interactive benefit the telling of the news? Can the local not be lost to a global voice? Can the web emerge as a primary source for news rather than current methods as regurgitation of the news reported by old media sour we and techniques?
NASCAR vs. The Simpsons
This morning I was listening to CBC Radio 1 and one of the main stories today is that the local cable company cut off the final few laps of the Nascar race for an all new episode of The Simpsons. Let’s face it The Simpsons is one of the most important influinces of my generation. The Simpsons, teaches that it is important to think for yourself and that one voice can make a difference. In retrospect this week’s particular episode was one of the best lately and I feel bad if an cable company didn’t cut off NASCAR for it.
HAAAAARRRRRRDDDDDDD!!!
So, I have been covering curling on Rogers Television lately and I find myself becoming attached to the sport. So the job hunt seems to be going well. It seems easier this time than in the past. I’m going to go see “Meet the Spartans” tonight I’ve been waiting to see that for a while. I hope everyone likes the new theme. The program I use for the photo gallery section is so impossibly hard to them and make look the same a this program that I use from my blog seemed like it was never going to work.
And the holidays are done! or are they!
So I haven’t had the opportunity to update this page in a while. It has been really busy lately. I spent many hours this past month working on the 12 Daytimes of Christmas on Rogers Television. The final two episodes are going to re-air on January 1-4th (11am, 4pm, and 10pm.) Also another note of something to watch was the locally shot “Sticks and Stones” 8pm AT Jan 1st on CTV. Now getting onto some of my movies, the pilot episode of the “Badger Hunter” is almost edited for it’s February release date. We are working on it’s website this weekend. On Boxing Day, I learned that the Toronto Film School is closing which now is gonna change my plans for a October move to Toronto. Tony and I have been looking now at the Toronto Film College but have not heard much about it, also Toronto apartment hunting seems like a daunting monster, even harder than the actual move.
Kiwanis Auction – 2007
Here is a sampling of the graphics I created for the 2007 Lancaster Kiwanis TV Auction. This is the second time that they let me create new graphics for this show although last time they did not look as good as this one. I went for a Shopping Channel look. Throughout the approval process, they remained mostly unchanged. The original draft had a blue background though.
“And it doesn’t really matter who wins”
While it was a surprise to me that Dick and Danielle will win this year’s Big Brother. It doesn’t really matter which one but I thing from a playing the game aspect that Dick definitely will be the winner on Thurs
TV Bingo
In Fall 2004 I had redesigned the look of Knights of Columbus TV Bingo. The first few images are from that production. Later they were redesigned in the Fall of 2005 to match a new look I had created for the UCT TV Bingo. The later design was still in use from 2006 until 2007. The images above may not be reproduced on any site other than cefm.ca.
Daytimes of Christmas
These elements were created in Corel Draw 12, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CS, and Adobe AfterEffects 6. The goal of this project was by changing a few basic elements to an existing show design seamlessly blend in a holiday theme that still made the show look like the original. This project was first conceived on a Friday and needed to be ready to go on air live the following Monday morning. About 12 hours went into this project. The project consisted of re-editing the end of the existing show theme in Avid, a 10-second Bumper, a themed moving background, and a plain background for credits. And changes to the show CG elements of a logo change, a new bug, and show and remove animations. Logo Show Bug Bumper The images above may not be reproduced on any site other than cefm.ca.
RTV Council
At the beginning of the 2004-2005 season, I had redesigned the Common Council coverage graphics. These were replaced in January of 2005 with the current standardized graphics. Here are the graphics used in the Fall of 2004. The images above may not be reproduced on any site other than cefm.ca.
On-Air Appearances
Television Appearances Guest Appearance: Daytime (Saint John Edition) {Rogers Television}(November 2006) Reporter: Too Close To Call “Saint John Sea Dogs’ Mike Thomas Interview” {Rogers Television} (October 2006) Reporter: First Local “Hockey Canada Interview” {Rogers Television October 2006) Turned Around in Background: Scott Thomas “My Way” Promo {Rogers Television} (2006-2007 season) Interviewed at a Stephen Harper Rally: Rick Mercer Report {CBC-TV} (January 2006) Sitting in Chair Laughing: Volunteer @ Rogers Promo {Rogers Television} (2005-2006 season) Interviewed in Montreal: Rick Mercer Report {CBC-TV} (March 2005) Guest Appearance: Municipal Vote 2004 Candidates Messages {Rogers Television}(2004) Reporter: Focus NB {Rogers Television} (2002-2003) Radio Appearances Guest Appearance: Talk of the Town (CFBC 930 AM SaintJohn) (2004) Debate Participant: CBC Saint John’s Information Morning(91.3 FM) (2004) News Director/Announcer: CHSR News at Noon (2002) Band Interviewer: CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton (2002)
Election Day Monday
I usually don’t talk too much about the shows that I do at Rogers Television but I want to plug this one that was advertised in the Telegraph-Journal today. I am ver excited about this and the new season that starts next weekend (24th).
2C2C Season 3
During the 2004-2005 season, there was a redesign done of the graphics for Too Close to Call. The logo and the Orange texture were from the Original Designs created by Ashley Duckerin. The images above may not be reproduced on any site other than cefm.ca.
Visit to Toronto
Last night I went down to the entertainment district and since I jumped on the wrong direction subway, and then the wrong subway station by one station, I was 5 minutes too late to see a show. Momma Mia is being preformed at the Royal Alexandria and Evita at the Prince of Wales Theatre. So then I browsed the strip of restaurants to find a place to eat, but went a few blocks away to Hooters instead. Once again the food was terrible but I had an incredibly nice waitress named, Autumn. After that I headed back to the Hotel and stopped at the Odeon Cineplex and was told by the beggar out front that Moolaite was a good movie. Well it wasn’t a was so board that a fell asleep during the second half. I tuned in this morning to Breakfast Television like I normally do and there were two news items I found interesting first was Molson Beer truck flipped over. Then the Parliament vote to get rid of the government.