ExplorePA 23 Episode Travel/ Education/ Reality series.
An exciting series about some off-the-beaten-path locations in Pennsylvania.
The challenge: cover many locations on a tight budget with a small crew.
The solution: cover locations quickly but efficiently and "fix it in Post." Also, use both professional and amateur videography and make the show look homogenous and professional on a level that could be aired nationally.
How-to "fix it in Post": multi-panel layering and compositing for not-so-pretty footage, using music appropriately to juice up flat areas by selecting sometimes unexpected tunes, making historical/ educational segments humorous, and using jump-cuts to keep viewers alert.
The outcome: 8 locations and numerous bumps per episode make these half-hours fly by and are great examples of "edutainment."
The following movies were edited by STEPHEN ULRICH, Member of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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PBS Edutainment
subject: Winery genre: education/ travel style: make ugly basement visually pleasing by using multi-panels. |
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PBS HISTORICAL
subject: Groundhog/ Punxatawney Phil genre: history/ travel style: composite images, archival photos, unscripted reality, edutainment |
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PBS HISTORICAL
subject: Strength Sports genre: history/ travel style: composite images, archival photos, unscripted reality, edutainment |
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PBS HISTORICAL
subject: Early American Tavern Life, origin of word "toasting" genre: history/ travel style: archival photos, unscripted reality, edutainment |
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PBS HISTORICAL
subject: Revolutionary War genre: history/ travel style: dramatic, humorous, archival photos blended with unscripted reality |
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PBS HISTORICAL
subject: iron furnaces genre: history/ travel style: re-enactment/ archival ftg mixed with unscripted reality. |
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PBS HISTORICAL
subject: Artist's Trail genre: travel style: contemporary edutainment |
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