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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Free­lance Media 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. This is first in series of 10 videos on this and related top­ics. Free newslet­ter at TraceTV-Film-Music-Social Media blog
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“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.
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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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“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. Prior to pho­tog­ra­phy, painters would often set up their easels in these spots in the day, when the light is just right.
As a Direc­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy I, along with every­one else in my trade, am con­sis­tently urg­ing clients who want to cap­ture nat­ural beauty of tal­ent, or spec­tac­u­lar exte­rior scenes, to let us wait for “the golden light” either early in the morn­ing or late in the after­noon. I never knew where the term “golden hour” came from, and still don’t know for sure, but I am a fan of famous quotes and was read­ing Bartlett’s Famous Quo­ta­tions when I came across this:
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