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EventDV Live Olympics Review

March 6, 2010

As a follow-up to my blog post critiquing the video coverage of the Olympics Opening Ceremony on EventDV Live, I wrote a second post summarizing my feelings on the games coverage following the closing ceremonies.  Both discussions compared the US NBC coverage to the Canadian  Consortium coverage, led by CTV and Rogers TV stations and [...]

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Olympic Opening Ceremony Critique – Canada VS USA

February 19, 2010

I watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games with a bit of a different perspective than did most Canadians and even worldwide sports fans – I was watching to see how CTV, Canada’s Olympic network, covered the ceremonies. The 2010 Olympics marks the first time that a Canadian network did [...]

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2009 BCPVA Distinguished Service Award

December 9, 2009

Update: Shawn Lam featured in The Tri-City News December 9, 2009 edition – Coquitlam Videographer Honoured
(Yes, I know the heading says PoMo girl wins film contest, – my part comes in the second half of the article with the sub-head of Coquitlam Videographer Honoured)
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2009 is going to be a very memorable one for me [...]

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Crowdsourcing Experiment – Select a new logo for Shawn Lam Video

October 26, 2009

Crowdsourcing is a relatively new term.  It is what happens when you replace a role normally filled by an individual with many contributors, or a crowd.  The idea behind crowdsourcing is that the wisdom of the crowd will always exceeds that of an individual.
One of the best known examples of crowdsourcing in action is wikipedia [...]

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What’s the deal with rechargeable batteries?

October 23, 2009

I’m in the process of replacing my Sennheiser Evolution 100 lav mic systems with the new Sennheiser Evolution 100  G3 ones (because they have diversity) and decided to revisit my battery choices.
In the past I was simply using Alkaline AA’s from Costco (Kirkland) but didn’t like the fact that I was constantly throwing them away, [...]

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What WEVA needs to fix for Expo 2010! Part 1

September 22, 2009

With a flood of photos, forum discussions, and Facebook friend requests floating around since the close of the 2009 WEVA Expo, I felt the timing was right to release my list of things WEVA needs to fix before the 2010 Expo.  Now let me preface this all by saying that the purpose of this list [...]

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Shawn Lam featured in REFOCUS book

August 21, 2009

A few months ago I was approached by video production colleagues and friends, Ron and Tasra Dawson of Dare Dreamer Media, to contribute to a book they were writing for Peachpit Press. The book is titled REFOCUS: Cutting-Edge Strategies to Evolve Your Video Business. I was pretty busy at the time as [...]

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The economy, news media, and video production

May 6, 2009

As a member of the press and contributing editor for EventDV Magazine, I have been following the effects of the US recession and the subsequent fall-out on print media. Newspapers appear to be taking the largest hit, with many outlets closing or switching to online only. Magazines have not escaped unscathed and Time [...]

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Matrox RT.X2 LE review in March EventDV magazine

March 5, 2009

Update – April 9, 2009: Vancouver Video Production Blog workflow featured on Matrox RTX2 User Forum.
After six months of workflow testing I completed my Matrox RT.X2 LE review for EventDV Magazine in December. The article appears in the March 2009 edition. The RT.X2 is a hardware card that provides real-time previews and [...]

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