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		<title>Eclipse Update &#8211; Video Highlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 19:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Solar eclipse was one week ago today. On that afternoon KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, broadcast 90-minutes of live coverage from 5-7 o&#8217;clock, with a half hour for NBC Nightly News at 5:30-6 P.M. As I detailed in last week&#8217;s blog, I operated the &#8220;Eclipse Cam&#8221; for the entire coverage of the eclipse, including feeding a continuous shot to the KCRA website, which continued streaming until the end of the eclipse at 7:30, resulting in some of the highest number of hits that the site&#8217;s had in the past year. When KCRA Reports at 5 O&#8217;Clock came on with anchorman Chris Riva leading the news with my shot of the sun and mentioned my name as the KCRA photographer running the camera I was astounded. Over the next two hours Chris mentioned my name on air more than I can count. I&#8217;ve never been too shy to say that I love hearing my name mentioned on the news, so this was high-octane gasoline for my ego. I&#8217;ve taken the airchecks of the broadcast and edited them down to the highlights of the eclipse, shamelessly using almost ever reference to me that was made on air. In years to come, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Convergence Podcast Talks &#8220;Naked Filmmaking&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to the Digital Convergence Posdcast for two years now. The podcast consists of host Carl Olson, a photographer and DSLR filmmaker based in Atlanta, Georgia; Mitch Aunger, also known as &#8220;Planet Mitch&#8221; for his premiere DSLR website Planet5D, based in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri; and Chris Fenwick, a freelance editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area who maintains a great site filled with life-saving editing tutorials. It&#8217;s a great hour-long podcast, that usually runs to an hour and fifteen minutes of so, and consists of Carl, Mitch and Chris discussing the latest styles and trends in digital photography and filmmaking gear and editing software. Every week they have guests, who are some of the biggest names in the DSLR world, like Philip Bloom and David duChemin. I discovered David duChemin through this podcast and was so taken by his approach to photography and independent lifestyle through teaching and publishing that I posted a blog about it. He&#8217;s traveling around North America, taking photos, conducting workshops and writing books. I&#8217;d love to meet up with him and do a video story about him. It&#8217;s like sitting in with a group of people who get together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Covering The Eclipse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 07:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News is not a regularly scheduled thing. Sometimes things happen on your days off and a call for volunteers is put out. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by astronomy, the planets and alignments &#8212; so eclipses are something I&#8217;ve never experienced first hand. So when the station, KCRA, announced plans for extended live coverage of the solar eclipse and a call was put out for an extra shooter to man a camera that would be trained on the sun for the duration of the eclipse, that sounded unique. The best place to cover the eclipse in California was in Redding, about three hours north of Sacramento &#8212; and beyond our microwave truck range. I was simply asked to load into a live truck and head north on I-5 for about an hour, find a spot with a clear view of the western sky, line up a signal, and be ready to be live for two solid hours. Okay. I got to Dunnigan and spied a nice spot just off of the highway &#8212; a gas station with a large parking area for truck drivers to pull over for the night. It was pretty much empty at this time of day. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Army &#8220;Wounded Warriors&#8221; Practice Yoga&#8211;KCRA Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 06:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a TV news story that I shot, reported, wrote and edited that ran on KCRA-TV&#8217;s Common Ground on Saturday May 19, 2012. In daily news we live under very strong time constraints of stories not exceeding a one minute and twenty second running length. Audience attention span is short and impatient so we have to keep our stories shorter, more to the point, and faster paced in order to hold the viewers. On the flip side of that, at KCRA we are extremely fortunate to have a once-a-month magazine program called Common Ground where we can run stories that are much longer. In this case, this story runs over 4 minutes! This story came about when I received an e-mail from Gina Garcia, a friend and former reporter for KCRA, who is now involved in Yoga Across America (yogaintheusa.org), and told me of how they are doing Yoga events for U.S. Army soldiers. These events are called Yoga For American Soldiers and is an effort to introduce &#8220;Wounded Warriors&#8221; to Yoga as a low-impact exercise to help them recuperate from injuries, wounds, and the stress of PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Immediately, I said I&#8217;d do a story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KCRA Chinese Delegates Visit Sacramento &#8212; Expanded</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 06:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month ago I reported a story KCRA Channel 3 Reports about a delegation of Chinese businessmen and government officials from Funan County in the People&#8217;s Republic of China coming to Sacramento to look at a facility for a distribution center for their imports. They make furniture and baskets from bamboo and other products, all green materials. The location they were visiting was Jon&#8217;s Furniture, a 40,000 square foot structure, on Stockton Boulevard. Jon&#8217;s has been a family-run business in Sacramento for over 50 years before closing the doors last year due to the economy. When I first moved to Sacramento and bought a house I bought a sofa and some bookcases from Jon&#8217;s. They&#8217;re a very nice family and this was a big event &#8212; and I was the only TV news crew there! Mayor Kevin Johnson attended and there were speeches and exchanges of gifts &#8212; very typical of visits from Asian businessmen. Then the family took the Chinese delegates on a tour of the facility &#8212; and this is when the story suddenly became exciting &#8212; because the businessmen began discovering woven products that were produced in Funan County, China, all over the store. It turns out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Breaking Into TV News&#8221; &#8211; Breaks Into TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 13:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week I was a guest on KCRAChannel 3 Reports at 7 A.M. with host Adrienne Bankert to discuss my new book Breaking Into TV News: How To Get A Job &#038; Excel As A TV Reporter-Photographer. You think about appearing for interviews like this for days in advance, then once you&#8217;re in the moment &#8212; and you&#8217;re on live TV &#8212; all you can think about is not going blank and keep talking, fall back on the handful of talking points you want to get across. Then when it&#8217;s over it&#8217;s like finishing a full out lap around the track. You don&#8217;t know what you said &#8212; but you know you didn&#8217;t get to 90% of what you did want to say. Very grateful to KCRA anchor Adrienne Bankert and KCRA executive producer Gretchen Littlejohn for having me on the show.]]></description>
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		<title>KCRA Olivia Morgan Graduates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 14:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday at KCRA, my end of the week. After quickly shooting a story on an auction of California state government surplus i was given printouts for three addition stories for me to shoot quickly throughout the day for use as VO-SOTs (Voice Over-Sound On Tape) &#8212; short stories for the anchors to read over. The first story on the list was a college graduation at Memorial Auditorium in downtown Sacramento. The main thrust of the story was Olivia Morgan, a 74 year-old woman graduating after going back to college to get a degree in order to get a part-time teaching job to supplement her social security. Olivia took her classes through Brandman University, a non-profit school for adults to get additional education to improve their careers. Students can attend classes in 26 campus locations across California, as well as online. Once I started talking to Olivia in the interview I knew this was a good story that could easily be expanded into a full reporter package. I always try to shoot a few extra interviews so that, if a newscast is running light (meaning that it could use another longer story or two) the :30 VO-SOT that I wa sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Breaking Into TV News&#8221;&#8211;All Done! And Two Weeks Of Vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember when, if ever, I&#8217;ve taken two weeks off and didn&#8217;t go any place. Believe this is now referred to as a &#8220;Stay-cation.&#8221; The time off was necessary because I&#8217;d built up so much time at work that if I didn&#8217;t use it, I would lose it. Hmm. . . . Whattaya gonna do? The first few days were spent putting the finishing touches on the Kindle Edition of the new book Breaking Into TV News &#8211; How To Get A Job &#38; Excel As A TV Reporter-Photographer. Making a Kindle version of your book is extremely simple &#8212; and if you&#8217;re converting something that&#8217;s pure text, such as a novel, it&#8217;s a breeze. However, Breaking Into TV News, as well as my first book, Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film &#8211; Without A Crew &#8211; For $10,000 Or Less, are both very visually-oriented books. The both involve multiple types of type faces and graphics, as well as hundreds of photographs. And all of the photos have to be added individually &#8212; one-by-one. So this took a little time. Then you have to test it several times to get it right. So the first couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Breaking Into TV News&#8221; &#8212; Kindle Edition Is Here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kindle ebook of Breaking Into TV News &#8211; How To Get A Job &#38; Excel As A Reporter-Photographer is now available for instant download on Amazon! And the Look Inside feature is available on the Kindle Edition so you can download the first 20 pages of the book to sample &#8212; or read on your computer on the Amazon page. So start reading now. Breaking Into TV News was written largely for students, both in college and in high school, and two of the great advantages to the Kindle Edition are 1) it&#8217;s much cheaper at only $9.99; and 2) you can have it with you everywhere! And the Kindle Edition is filled with the more than 250 photos that are in the published version. To those who aren&#8217;t familiar with how Amazon&#8217;s Kindle books work &#8212; you don&#8217;t have to own a Kindle to get Kindle books. Amazon offers free Kindle Reader apps as easy downloads so that you can read Kindle books on any computer &#8212; desktop, laptop, iPad, HP tablet &#8212; as well as any smart phone. Also, if you buy a Kindle book to read on your Kindle, you can also synch that purchase up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Breaking Into TV News&#8221; &#8212; Watch The Videos Described In &#8220;Writing News Scripts&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Breaking Into TV News &#8211; How To Get A Job &#38; Excel As A Reporter-Photographer is a section on &#8220;Writing&#8221; where I present five different stories that I&#8217;ve done as a reporter-photographer, starting with my very first story back in 1984 at KWCH-TV in Wichita, Kansas, and four stories that I&#8217;ve done over the past year or so for KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California. Each news story includes the story-behind-the-story of how the story was assigned, shot, written and edited. Two of the three stories are accompanied by the actual scripts used, and one of those even includes my original transcribed notes and the first draft of the script. Included here are the pages with the script for a story I did last November about the Sacramento SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) which I shot, reported, wrote &#38; edited for KCRA. And for the people who&#8217;ve bought Breaking Into TV News, I&#8217;ve provided the videos to all the stories that I discuss and present the news scripts for in the section on &#8220;Writing.&#8221; KWCH Wounded Duck KCRA The Bee House KCRA After-Christmas Bird Count KCRA Sacramento SPCA Adopt-A-Thon KCRA Land Park Volunteer Corps]]></description>
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