Em-Dashed If You Do
It took 30 years, but Bill Neville finally ruined my writing.
Stories & Insights
From the classroom and the field. Teaching, production, and what I’ve picked up along the way.
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The take was perfect. The audio wasn’t.
A perfect take, wrecked by radio interference on location. Reshoot wasn’t possible. Here’s how I used ElevenLabs voice cloning to rescue the footage — and…
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Got Fired!
I can’t say as my firing was entirely unanticipated. The school system is roughly a million-and-a-half in the red. They called it a RIF. I…
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The terror of the blank page (or screen)
My A/V students don’t freeze because they lack ideas. They freeze because the blank screen has infinite possibilities and that’s completely paralyzing. Here’s what I…
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Three people, two mics: Time to improvise!
I popped the audio case open and counted two lavs. I’d packed three. Here’s what you do when a shoot goes sideways before the first…
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AI video got better faster than I thought. Here’s where it actually stands.
Sora is shutting down this week. That’s as good a prompt as any to talk about where AI video actually is right now — what…
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Plan your shoots
Video Shoot Planning is the core idea in this piece, and the practical takeaway is straightforward: our deadline was approaching quickly, and we hadn’t shot…
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That viral video’s from who?
Viral Video Mistakes is the core idea in this piece, and the practical takeaway is straightforward: hot on the heels of our very first truly…
