Smooth Shooting in Rough Seas In the last 20 years or so I've worked for a variety of Cruise Lines and Travel Clients. I've spent well over three years of my life, one or two weeks at a time, shooting on cruise ships all over the world. I know it seems like an ideal occupation, full of blonds in bikinis and martinis in Martinique...and, uh, well, sure there is a lot of that.
But it's hard work too! Really it is!
This article will tell you how to avoid some of the pitfalls of shooting at sea.Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, cruise, cruise ship, cruising, photographer, photography, video, blonds, bikinis, captain, Princess, Midnight Express-Oh! So there we were, sitting outside the Turkish Customs Office in Istanbul drinking strong Turkish coffee with some swarthy guys who didn't speak a word of English. My cameraman and I were waiting for Ali, our local guide/production manager/criminal, to finish bribing the authorities (or being paid by these authorities to haul us off to some Midnight Express style prison where we would be ransomed off). Whatever. How we had come to this precarious state is an interesting story.Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, Turkey, Istanbul, travel, cruise ship, Princess Cruises, Grand Princess, cameraman, location, aerial Are Pistachio Nuts Safe to Eat? Pistachios have been in the news lately, mainly because of a Salmonella scare involving one of the processing plants in California. As most people know, Salmonella is a bacterium that can cause severe intestinal problems, fever and even death. So it's natural to ask the question: Are Pistachio nuts safe to eat?Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, pistachio, pistachios, pistachio nuts, nuts, processing, Setton, Setton Farms, Salmonella, health, s Tied Up in Taiwan So there we were, in the Grand Hotel in Taipei, using a child's wading pool to catch the water our shirtless production manager was pouring down his back so we could get a light reading in the candle-lit room. Unexpectedly, the room service boy walked in and we could tell by his horrified expression that we......Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, travel, Taiwan, Taipei, location, production, photography, film, sensual, shooting, filmmaking, came Sailing the South Seas Ever since I read James Michener's book, Tales of the South Pacific, I've dreamed of living amongst the waving palms and sugar sand beaches of the South Seas. In my youth, this dream actually drove me to move to Hawaii for a while where I settled down with a sweet girl of Hawaiian-Chinese-Filipino descent. Her name was Nani Houmaniwanui Pahia.Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, travel, cruise, ship, sail, Tahiti, Bora Bora, Society Islands, South Seas, South Pacific, Hawaii, i The Thousand-Dollar Lunch One of the perks of being in the Cruise Line Video Production Business is lunch. Sometimes this can be a hurried sandwich grab and some chips, but not usually.
Possibly my best one ever was the Thousand-Dollar Lunch in Venice, Italy.Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, Venice, Italy, cruise, location, video, gondola, cruise line, pasta, grand canal, Italian, mediteran The Caribbean Cha-Cha When you are shooting on location you must always be open to the serendipitous event. (This applies to any vacation as well as filming on location.) By this I mean: have a definite plan, but be alert for those golden opportunities that might present themselves along the way. The key to this openness is to be absolutely locked down in your prep.Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, Caribbean, Princess, Princess Cruises, cruises, location, filming, shooting, Timothy K Melchior, Tim How Safe is Safe? This article is prompted by the latest food product recall, two million pounds of Pistachios, because of the possibility of Salmonella contamination. We have had similar recalls in the last few years involving Spinach, Tomatoes and Peanuts.Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, pistachio, pistachios, pistachio nuts, nuts, processing, Setton, Setton Farms, Salmonella, health, s Love Boat Lessons-- Know Before You Go! It's hard to remember back twenty-four years to when the last original episode of The Love Boat aired. Of course, that show has been in heavy syndication since then and the mythology has it that an episode is constantly playing somewhere in the world. But back in 1985 it was considered to have 'jumped the shark'Keywords:
Timothy K Melchior, Love Boat, Princess Cruises, Cruises, Film, media, marketing, video, survey, commercial, promo, medium, cruising, the association, Princess, film
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