TraceTV – Film – Music – Social Media

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.
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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.

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Way­man Tis­dale 1964 — 2009

On Thanks­giv­ing evening 2008, TNT aired a pro­file piece on Way­man Tis­dale, for­mer NBA star who was bat­tling bone can­cer, with a love of music. The seg­ment aired on the TNT pro­gram “Inside the NBA” with Charles Barkley.

The net­work con­tracted Bob Humphrey Video Ser­vices who hired Direc­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy Tracy Ready and Sound Tech­ni­cian Bob Fazio to work with TNT pro­ducer John O’Connor and Cor­re­spon­dent Jim Huber on the story.

Watch the story > Click here for “Way­man Tis­dale Courage” from NBA on TNT

Note from Tracy Ready:

Sadly, Way­man Tis­dale lost his bat­tle to can­cer, but he was a true cham­pion of the spirit.
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