Bill Cammack

I’m the guest on Jonny Goldstein’s “Jonny’s Par-tay” tomorrow night (Wednesday August 8th) LIVE between 9pmEST and 9:40pmEST @ http://jonnygoldstein.com/.

Jonny’s setting up a real-time text chat, so come on down and get your questions in as we disuss MSM, PEOPLE-CREATED media and some videoblogging community current events. :)

AND… Just in case you think we’re NEW TO THIS!!! :D

http://billcammack.com/2006/10/15/zoom-in-producing-movies-today/

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Effective immediately, Bill Cammack joins Drew Olanoff as a member of “Team SCRIGGITY“. :D

When I first got involved in videoblogging, a little over a year ago, I used to troll blip.tv‘s recent uploads to get ideas about shows that I thought were good. One of those shows was Jonny Goldstein’s “Reinventing Television” (reinventingtv.phovi.com). I got involved, immediately. => Text chat from Reinventing Television Episode 2 (October 12, 2006).

Another show that I thought was cool, interesting and innovative was scriggity (scriggity.com). Eventually, I met and hung out with Drew @ several NYC events, including Videoblogger Meetups, Network2 get-togethers and PodCampNYC.

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Meanwhile, I was gearing up to do my own show… I mean, I *HAVE* my own “show” already, but it’s more like a feed of stuff that I do day in and day out. It’s not a actual show, but rather an indication of what it’s like to be me on any given day. So… I was gearing up to do an actual show and started filming episodes of “The Lab”.

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What I found out, and outlined in my notes about the project… was that while I enjoy MAKING shows, I don’t enjoy the rest of the process. The “paperwork”, as I call it of all the stuff that has to be done PAST production and post.

Interestingly enough, Drew decided that he doesn’t want to edit. :D We chatted this morning, and I’ve joined “Team SCRIGGITY”, and we’re looking forward to big things. :D I always enjoy doing projects with friends, and I’ve been a fan of Drew’s concepts for a long time now. Thanks to Drew for the nod, and…

it’s ON!!! and it happens to be POPPIN’!!! :D

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@ the end of tonight’s show, Jonny announced that this was the final episode of Reinventing Television. I think the format, concept and hosting of the show was great, and actually a reinvention of television.

On television, you might get to see Britney Spears on a closed-set talk show, emoting to a hand-picked interviewer with carefully-chosen questions, and after MUCH, MUCH, MUCH editing done to make her look as good as possible, physically and intellectually. You don’t realize you’re being sold something that people are hoping that you’re going to buy.

On Jonny & Peter‘s show, “REINVENTING Television”, the guests responded directly to questions from Jonny or from the audience over the text chat or the phone lines. It wasn’t so much like television as it was like bringing people together that weren’t physically in the same location into a coffee-shop or lounge environment where we could discuss common interests. Same deal for Jason DaSilva‘s show “Zoom In”, which became “Celluloid Stories”. Jonny & Jason held weekly house parties that happened to have a technical focus.

I got a lot out of the show, because I’m relatively new to videoblogging. Actually, ReinventingTV / ZoomIn was my first extensive experience with webcams. I don’t even OWN a webcam! :D I found out that I could use my DV camera that I hook up through Firewire with iChat and the application that Phovi was using for ReinventingTV, which was flash-based.

I hadn’t seen webcams as useful for anything, so I never used them. ReinventingTV was really the perfect application for them. The only difference between phovi.com‘s format and actually BEING THERE is that you couldn’t reach across the table and shake someone’s hand. :D I had felt that way before, but the final episode really showed me how ‘intimate’ the setting was that Jonny, Jason & Peter created. I had met / hung out with Rudy & Casey from Galacticast a couple of weeks ago, and they were guests on last night’s show. They were sitting on their GalactiCouch & Casey was playing her guitar, and we had verbal connection through the phone lines as well as connection via the text chat, and this was what was happening NOW… right now. Real-Time. IRL.

This wasn’t taped, so you find out that the guest on tonight’s show is actually in Puerto Rico right now. :D They were in Canada, Jonny was in D.C., I was in NYC, other people were wherever they were, but we were all together, in our little, multi-connection coffee-shop, finding out about what’s going on with Galacticast and getting answers to OUR OWN QUESTIONS instead of the questions that the corporation told the network to tell the station to tell the show to tell the EP to tell the producer to tell the interviewer to ask! :D

fantastic!

Anyway… I’ll be keeping an eye out for Jonny Goldstein‘s next project as well as Peter Raulerson (phovi.com). I think they’re both ahead of the curve right now, and when the technology catches up to what ReinventingTV/ZoomIn did with the *current* technology, there’ll be a lot of emulators of their format & style.

… often imitated, but never duplicated! :D …

Thanks for the shows, fellas!

This Thursday’s "Reinventing Television"

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Jonny’s guests this week on “Reinventing Television” are Zadi Diaz, Ryanne Hodson, Michael Verdi, Jay Dedman.

Make sure you show up early, so you don’t miss out on J.Goldstein’s HARMONICA SKILLZ!!! :D

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Tonight’s guest on “Reinventing Television” was Marc Lesser from
The Joke Project.

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This week, Jonny’s guest speaker on Reinventing Television was Eddie Codel, producer and co-founder of Geek Entertainment TV (GETV).

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The show uses webcams and tele-conferencing to bring people together to discuss cutting-edge issues in video blogging.

Air-time is Thursday nights @ 10pm EST. You don't need a webcam to be involved... just a broadband connection & browser to see the video and a telephone to call the toll-free conference number to listen in.

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Tonight, I headed back over to phovi.com for “Zoom In: Producing Movies Today!”, hosted by Jason DaSilva.

The show was billed as a discussion on financing, production resources and distribution, but we actually covered many different aspects of filmmaking. A new documentary filmmaker, Vexcellence had many questions, so we ended up chatting about pre-production, post, legal, lighting, crews, cameras, product placement…..

“Zoom In: Producing Movies Today!” is a LIVE video talk show on phovi.com on Sundays from 7:00-8:00pm EST. Check it out if you’re in the film industry, or just getting started. :D

Last night, I checked out Reinventing Television, hosted by Jonny Goldstein, with special guest Bre Pettis.

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The show uses webcams and tele-conferencing to bring people together to discuss cutting-edge issues in video blogging.

Air-time is Thursday nights @ 10pm EST. You don't need a webcam to be involved... just a broadband connection & browser to see the video and a telephone to call the toll-free conference number to listen in. I definitely learned a few things I didn't know and I'm looking forward to next week's show, featuring Geek Entertainment TV.