Today my morning and afternoon workshops were all about creating digital video. In the morning, Douglas Spotted Eagle with two other video creators presented an intense program on how to create digital videos. The longer afternoon workshop was all on guerilla shooting with focus on equipment and technique for in-and-out shoots are impossible places like hotel lobbies and mosques. Both sessions were by themselves worth the price for the whole Post Production World Conference. Doug teaches by showing actual equipment and demonstrating techniques in real time. When demonstrating his two favorite mikes, for instance, he demonstrated their indestructibility by hurling them across the hall. The audience as one gasped, especially when he stepped on the lavaliere mike and put his entire weight on the tiny receiver. Seeing the actual equipment and, since I sat at the front table, being able to handle and see how many of them worked was invaluable. Doug didn't shy from declaring his preferences for particular models and his reasons for them. These were not boxed presentations with pretty Keynote slides. I left with lists of equipment model numbers and sources along with in-the-field tips. Workshops like these are comparable, even superior to master classes in piano or vocal performance at a music school!
Tomorrow the National Association of Broadcasters Conference officially opens. I shall be at the opening ceremonies and attending Super Sessions with industry leaders the whole day. Tuesday I'll be back at the Post Production workshops, Wednesday I'll be at the exhibits. I want to look at Litepanel products, battery-powered LED daylight-balanced lights for video cameras that have become overnight standards for being green, portable and daylight sources. B&H will also be at the exhibit hall. The last two years they offered NAB special discounts. I'd like to add to my video shoot equipment and maybe some royalty-free HD footages.
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