I did it! I produced my first travel video! It’s about luscious Guadeloupe so check it out on the Toronto Star website. At the very least, you can laugh at my puny efforts – but I tell you, this is not the…
My first travel video
Okay – it’s a red letter day, and one worth cringing over as I hear my voice on the Toronto Star website in my very first travel video, Montreal, City of Glass. (Full disclosure: I didn’t shoot it, it’s footage…
Screwing up – making a video demo part 3
Not every video can be perfect. That’s why they invented the word ‘retake.’ So here’s an I’m-such-a-schmuck moment in the video shoot for our travel series demo, Wandering Carol. We were doing a lobby scene at Hotel St Paul in Old Montreal where I…
Reel or real – shooting a demo part 2
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. What about girls who wear glass dresses? Luckily, when I was wearing a glass-encrusted couture dress in a Montreal street scene for our demo video, Wandering Carol, no one pelted me…
My 15 minutes is over
What? No more camera crew? After an intense 2 and a half days of shooting the demo for Wandering Carol, a funky new travel series, I cannot believe the crew came, they shot and then they drove back to Toronto. I…
Home on the fly
I know I’m back in Toronto, but half my brain is still in the UK (insert half wit joke here) while the other half is already in Montreal where I’m heading Monday. Do I unpack, repack or add on top of what I already…