NATPE 2011 was a great success! With Miami sunsets as the backdrop, NATPE presented the latest shows, producers, and technologies in the industry. Each day was filled with informative meetings and speakers – giving the visitors an inside look at the latest from around the world. Some of the interesting features included new technology that television shows and producers could take advantage of. This included smart phone apps as well as internet streaming on a whole new level. The main layout for NATPE was reminiscent of the early days of NATPE when it was held in Miami years ago. The Fontainebleau Resort was the perfect fit for the new fresh start NATPE was looking for. Anyone you talked to was excited about the location and event. After dark, the fun continued outside on the beautiful lawn reaching out to the beach and sunset.
2010: Year In Music Videos (or, how I made a Top Ten List hopelessly complicated)
Is it ironic that OK Go has become the essential music video band by not making anything that would traditionally be considered a music video? In a way, their best known clips are not music videos at all, but rather documentations of amazing, elaborate live events and stunts. No edits, no cinematography of note, none of the elements that normally define a music video other than the lip-sync.
Coldplay + Christmas was a combination that was bound to happen, but the video unfurls plenty of surprises. Director Mat Whitecross starts the seemingly one-take video as an intimate performance that gets more and more elaborate until the camera pulls back to reveal that the stage is in fact set upon the banks of the Thames as part of a huge bombastic set-up. --> watch "Christmas Lights" plus a making-of
