Director Spotlight: Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt began his career during the dawn of television, starting in 1948 and working at CBS for an incredible sixty-one years. Shortly Read More…
Author: Tom D'Angelo
Tom D'Angelo has worked in television production and AVL corporate theater for nearly four decades. He is Emmy Award nominated (Best Director category, Mid-Atlantic) and has been part of various teams nominated or winning national Emmys. As the Media Director at a megachurch in the 1980’s he developed a love for the Church and church performing and technical artists.
Active Cameras
Stay static, push, pull, pan, dolly, truck, pedestal, crab, track and dolly-zoom. It seems like the options are endless. Add to this list flying the Read More…
Director Spotlight: Don Mischer
A young boy sat on the floor of his living room playing with a cardboard box. But this was not any ordinary cardboard box. On the back of the box faRead More…
Production in War Zones
Years ago I was employed with a company that provided audio, lighting, projection, set design, carpentry and video production services on all sorts oRead More…
FILO 2018 Notes – Live video for worship
At the 2018 FILO (First In, Last Out) church tech-arts conference Rusty Anderson taught a break-out session on “Live video for worship.” Rusty&Read More…
Air traffic video directors
Cross an air traffic controller, someone who is responsible for the efficient implementation of schedules in an altogether unforgiving and dynamic enRead More…
The Broadcast Audio Guy Should Be Fired!
[… or so I’ve heard …] I am fortunate to be able to work on a lot of live-live broadcast entertainment specials. Some recent ones include The Read More…
Deconstructing State of the City
One of the difficult things we do is train someone to be a competent technician. Training someone to be a video director is really difficult. TraininRead More…
Tech-Artists’ Proverbs
According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary a “Proverb” is an adage, a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observaRead More…
4K consumer growth and globalization
If your church is like mine, you may still be running Standard Definition cameras, as well as projecting and streaming in SD. Mind you, I am not cRead More…