IP Democracy: Travel Channel to Air Video Blogs

Courtesy of New Media Musings, a Hollywood Reporter item says that Michael Rosenblum’s M3 Media has teamed with the Travel Channel to air what in essence are video blog films produced by a team of four young filmmakers.

“The participants on ‘5 Takes Europe’ have been turned into viable citizen journalists, able to act as reporters, camera persons, sound engineers and editors simultaneously,” Rosenblum said. “A $5,000 edit room is now a $400 piece of software. TV production is as easy as word processing.”

TV viewers will be able to interact with the filmmakers on the web as they produce the series, called “5 Takes Europe,” on a scant budget of $50/day. M3 Media was founded by Rosenblum and TV veteran Marty Feinberg to create programming and teach others how to do it.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on July 15, 2005 4:36 PM to IP Democracy