TraceTV - Film - Music - Social Media

Social Media Simple — 3 Videos

Having worked in "traditional" media (television) for more than 20 years, I have been astounded at the growth of social media and it's impact on how we do business as freelance media professionals. It's also apparent to me that many of my colleagues in television and music production are not taking part in this revolution, often because of a lack of understanding of how it all works.

Communicating With Color

Image Communications Expert Cathrine Hatcher discusses color and how it affects public perception in this video for TraceTV - Film - Music - Social Media. We are all constantly communicating, both verbally, and non-verbally. Cathrine's message here exposes how our choice of color in clothing can affect those that we meet with in our daily lives.

Social Networking for Freelancers

Freelance Professional Tracy Ready speaks about his experience in learning social media skills to promote small business. Included is list of Top 3 skills to attract more followers on Twitter, Facebook and other Social Media sites.

New Day, New Blog

“Skating away on the thin ice of the new day…” — Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull

Greetings Friends,
I have been working for some time to upgrade our blog site. Now I am excited to launch: TraceTV — Film — Music — Social Media at TraceTV.tv I hope you’ll visit soon.
At the start up, I am re-posting some of the most popular items from our previous wordpress.com blog, and I invite you to take a spin around the site, kick the tires and give me some feedback. It is definitely a work in progress.

Meanwhile, we are producing a series of ten videos about using Social Media for business for the freelance professional as well as music news, image tips and an interview with an acclaimed author. These videos are being created with some fine assistance from Cathrine Hatcher of Personas Image Dynamics, Jeff Mack of Texas Music Channel and freelance sound technician Jason Meyers. The first installment will be ready soon and will be posted on our TraceTVfilm YouTube channel and embedded on this blog, so I hope you’ll come back soon!
Best to all…

South Texas Soul Documentary Features Legendary Texas Musician Augie Meyers

South Texas Soul: The San Antonio Sound – Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm and the history and influence of South Texas on popular music of today. Documentary filmmaker Tracy Ready examines the influence of German, Polish and Irish immigrants in South Texas on popular music styles including Country, Tejano, Blues and Rock and Roll, from a unique perspective.

“The Golden Hour” origins

"The Golden Hour" is an elusive time, one of God's miracles that happens twice a day, whether we notice or not. Just after sunrise and just before dusk everyday the sun gets low in the sky, making the shadows long and deep, giving definition and a certain quality to the subject that has been sought out by visual artists for centuries.

What’s Swimming In Your Aquarium?

The Aquarium Concept for business, life and the pursuit of happiness. Pretty sight, isn't it? It's not mine, in fact, I have never had success taking care of tropical fish. It's just not my "thing", even though I enjoy scenes like this. I do have an "aquarium" of sorts, but it has no glass, rock or water, only thoughts and dreams. My aquarium was a total mess for a long time, until I came to terms with this: In order for things to flourish, they must have a good environment.

Social Networking the New Year, and why not?

I was resistant to the social networking / blogging idea until I began to see the hidden potential for my businesses, and our developing music and documentary film projects. Among other things, this has been a year in which I delved headlong into social networking, and it has been fun and rewarding for me both personally and professionally. I have gathered a few thoughts here, that I hope will benefit others, so here we go...

TexasB-roll Rides Again Supporting Texas Motion Picture Alliance

Please visit TexasB-roll and CityB-roll online today.

“It’s been a long time coming” — David Crosby

Yes it has! In 2002, we started offering stock footage of Texas for sale in broadcast quality standard definition formats. Now our stock footage is fleshed out in true HD (1080-24p) and we are excited about our Industry Sponsor status with Texas Motion Picture Alliance. We have dropped prices on our footage to be competitive in a tough economy, and are now donating $5.00 for every HD clip sold on our sites to TXMPA.

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Dallas Selected as Location for New Television Series

Fox Television Studios has selected Dallas to be the location for Jack and Dan, its new one-hour, action/comedy series to air on FOX. Created by Matt Nix (Burn Notice) who is executive-producing along with Mikkel Bondesen, Jack and Dan will be set in Dallas and filmed at locations throughout the city. Fox Television Studios’ production offices for the series also will be based in Dallas.