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Top 10 Gospel Christmas Songs
I asked Robert Darden, author of Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume I, Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement and People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel...
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How to Conduct an Interview, Part 1: Before the Questions
So, You Want to Conduct an On-Camera Interview… I don’t usually do how-tos, but a few times in the past year I’ve been approached by people who want to make a documentary and they always ask me, among...
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How to Conduct an Interview, Part 2: Asking the Questions
Last week in How to Conduct an Interview Part 1, I dealt with preparation. This post features some pointers once you are sitting across from the interviewee with your questions in hand. Ready? Go!...
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Process: A Life’s Work and the Canon 5D by Guest Blogger Andy Bowley
Today’s post was written by cinematographer Andy Bowley and originally published in June 2010. I’m putting up this “encore post” because shooting video with the Canon 5D has recently come up several...
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“I must have more shots of the military!”
I’ve been editing a section of A Life’s Work that relies on some archival footage, so I’ve been searching and watching and thinking and searching and watching and cutting. A new post about archival...
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Win a CD Comp Full of Killer Gospel Music Guitar Tracks
We have a winner! Congratulations to M.E. Hope. The contest is officially over. Here’s a clip Robert Darden of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. He mentions some recording artists. Click here...
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Keeping Up with Robert Darden and the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project
In December 2013 the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture announced that it would be welcoming into its collections recordings from the Black Gospel Music Restoration...
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Filmmaker Clams
Years ago, a friend and I referred to running, inside joked, phrased, or expressiond as “clams.” I’m not sure where this came from, but I use it to this day. The process of filmmaking results in many...
View ArticleRecord Store Day 2014
In case you didn’t know it, Saturday, April 19, 2014, is Record Store Day. Seven years and still hanging around. I thought I’d recycle this, because it’s still appropriate. Many many years ago I worked...
View ArticleConversations with Friends, Part 2
Not too long ago I was speaking with my friend S. about something other than film and art. He said, “In my experience, whenever you try to force something, it doesn’t work.” Advice like this no one...
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