About
Glen is a Production Development Manager / Trainer with RTÉ -Irelands National Broadcaster. His broadcast career began in 1997 with the fledgling TnaG (later TG4) and later he moved in production resource management with the RTE irish language news service: Nuacht. In recent years he has trained with the BBC in multi-camera direction and Media Training through CIRCOM regional. He is a certified Apple support Professional, an active AVID Media Composer editor and an enthusiastic cameraman both moving and stills. He closed his photography business (Redeye-Photography) in 2009 as a result of the recession but continues to produce portraits both for RTE publicity and for his own projects.
Recently he has started work on a Mobile Journalism project – the objectives being the creation & compilation of a training programme (both online and on location), a definitive hardware and software specification list and a consultancy offering to allow clients to customize the programme to their needs. The programme is based on three MoJo models: Basic Mojo, Radio Mojo and TV/Online Mojo. Follow Glen on TWITTER @glenbmulcahy and tweet if you want to get in touch.
Note: Views expressed herein are strictly personal and in no way represent the views or opinions of RTÉ.
Hi Glen
Really nice ‘distressed-look’ blog. The bits about me you’re way kind. Lets just say I have an itch I keep scratching. Dirk and Michael do wear Doc Martins. I met Dirk at ONA (NY) and he was to say the least v humble – given his stature. Michael keeps me et al going with his expansive thoughts geared towards the video event-horizon.
Interesting what the TV people say about cinematic video, because that schism is artificial born from TV choosing a less aesthetic option (cost) to Cinema during its birth.
But, the way camera lenses are developing and cinematic language is being dragged from docs & cine to new TV journalistic modes ( seen more online) it’s really only a matter of time before either TV adopts Cine codes with still its fidelity to truth and the story, or a new model of TV news arises.
Put another way, if journalism is changing ( which many agree it is) then our methodologies and output will need to change. And one of the assets we’re most likely to adopt is richer “lens-driven”, cinematic narratives, camera-framing-movement…. that’s my itch anyway.
Cheers
David
Glen
Great site. Most informative.
Your readers might also be interested in http://www.nyvs.com
take a look and let me know what you think
best
Rosenblum
Hi Glen,
I just watched your Vimeo video on iPhone 4 Mobile Journalism. Great stuff! I manage the Mobile Media Toolkit, a collection of resources, how-to guides, mobile tool reviews, and case studies that help people make sense of mobile media.
I included mention of and link to your video on the Toolkit. Please check it out and let us know how we can help in your work. We’d love to have you submit a guest post or guest video for the site.
http://www.mobilemediatoolkit.org
Thank you!
Best,
Melissa Ulbricht
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Thank you for your kind words Melissa. I’ve had a look at your site- it’s very impressive and truly encompasses the full gamut of potential for mobile media. I work for a news organisation so my research and tutorials tend to be aimed at journalists. But I have also worked as a video journalism trainer both for my station and as part of Circom Regional- a pan-European organisation with over 180 regional tv stations as members. With a colleague, I’m hoping to present a proposal for intensive, short, mobile media production training courses aimed at journalists from both the print industry, radio industry, web industry and of course t.v. I’m very flattered by your kind invitation to guest write for your website. I would be more than happy to contribute. I’m now following you on twitter so I’d you have any specific topics you would like me to work on, by all means get in touch. Thanks again. Glen
Hi Glen,
I came across your blog just today and i am very impressed, i am a Director of a new start-up company called Seamless http://www.seamlessphoto.com which will launch in December of this year, if you have an e-mail address I could contact you on, I would like to discuss something with you please.
Kind Regards
Padraic Deasy