Article Reprint Originally published as “This Ain’t no DV, This Ain’t no HD, This Ain’t no Fooling Around: A conversation with David Leitner about ‘The Technical Writer’” in the The New York Independent Film Monitor, Volume 8, No. 4 (January 2003). The Technical Writer, directed by Scott Saunders, tells the story of an agoraphobic technical […]
Film is dead… and we have killed it
Article Reprint This article was originally published in the New York Independent Film Monitor, Vol. 7, No. 5 (March 2002). Did you hear about the mad filmmaker who stood up at a recent festival screening and cried incessantly, “I seek Film! I seek Film!” as he provoked laughter from other filmmakers in the audience? “Whither […]
Pseudo 24P Postproduction
PAL, Progressive Scan, and Video to Film transfers go well together like chocolate and peanut butter, however, like the classic Reeses commecial, sometimes the collision can get a little messy. For filmmakers shooting DV features and shorts, many post facilities suggest origination on PAL using a camera capable of progressive scanning. Why is this so? […]
Bits are not Bites! Balkanizing spectrum creates scarcity
The speaker at the MIT Wireless Forum meeting on December 4, 2002 was David P. Reed. In his presentation titled “Bits are not Bites! Balkanizing spectrum creates scarcity” he argued that the use of adaptive radio architectures will eventually enable a massive increase in usable “spectrum capacity.” The current structure of U.S. and international radio […]
Rob Ryan: Reinventing the Revenue Model
What follows are my notes from an afternoon with Rob Ryan at the MIT Sloan School, June 18, 2002. I think regardless of the business you are in, Rob’s methods are a valuable addition to your strategy toolbox. Rob’s lecture revolved around his “Sunflower” model which he designed to help think about creating new revenue […]
NAB 2002 Roundup
The annual conference of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is the largest electronic media show in the world and provides an opportunity to see in one place what is new in production and post. Attendance was off about 16% this year, but no surprise given the Internet bust, 9-11, and the recession. All in […]