Now that Mike and I have mastered the elements of creating an ongoing ‘cast (we call it a MADCast), I am ready to move on to the next step, creating a videoBlog/Vblog/TV program (whatever you want to call it). I have been holding off buying a camera til I had an idea.
So, I am going to create “The Low-Tech TV Network” as part of this site. Here’s my plan: I am going to buy a video camera of some sort. I will get away with as cheap as possible at this point. I then will build a small set somewhere in my home. I will enlist the assistance of my budding videographer to be camera-person and assist with the editing. Think of something that sits between the late, great Tech TV (hence the title homage) and “
Each program (figure five minutes in length, the length of a long TV news feature) will focus on a tech topic. I will be the talent. Before you roll over from laughter, I must humbly admit I have a good deal of TV experience. Without going into detail, I hosted a cable TV program, On Video, (sometime, I will digitize and post). The show appeared on Tempo TV, the predecessor to CNBC. I also helped produce the show. For a while, in the mid-‘80s, I also appeared as a regular on the ABC-TV program “Home” with Robb Weller and Sandy Hill. Enough about that, the point is, I am experienced and will work cheap. BTW, did you know Robb Weller invented “the wave” when he was a Yell King at UW?
I plan on using this great SW from Serious Magic to pull this all together. From what I gather, Visual Communicator will allow me to knit together such elements as Web pages, presentations, etc… into the final product.
Once I have an actual show in hand, that’s when the fun begins. That’s when I try out my idea to build and distribute TV content using all sorts of great conduits such as Grouper, Mercora, etc…
I am shooting to have my first show done by mid-March. Stay tuned!
