You’ve got to admit the ability for anyone to be able to do this type of production from their home is absolutely incredible and undreamed of just a few years ago.
AN ARMY OF MICHELLE MALKINS? I wrote her about Hot Air, and she replied:The newscast is filmed in my basement with a Sony HVR-A1U Digital HDV Handycam and edited with Avid Xpress DV and Adobe After Effects. There's a green screen behind me. Bryan does all the wizardry. We're having fun and it is truly amazing how all this fairly inexpensive software and hardware is revolutionizing broadcast media. We're living the Army of Davids dream. (Can't count how many times someone has written and said "when are you going to have your own TV show?" Now, I don't need to wait!)Nope. None of us do.
UPDATE: Read this piece from The Economist, on new media, too. This piece on blogs is good, too.
I met Michelle at a rally for Abdul Rahman last month. I was already a fan of her work, but after she said GMU’s econ program was #2 in the country right behind Chicago, my opinion of her shot up 1000%!
Here’s the video camera she’s using and a review of it here. It’s certainly a prosumer model, but to think that a video production studio can be set-up in the basement within the price reach of an average American simply floors me. I’d be willing to be a video production could also be done with a typical PC and digital camera or camcorder for a fraction of that price.
A near-professional studio for under $10,000 or an amateur one for under $1,000! The economist in me predicts that not only will these technologies become cheaper in terms of real income, but quality will also increase and so will the quantity of people engaging in these types of production.
I don’t know what the future holds for these technologies and activities, but I sure can’t wait to find out!
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