IBC 2014 live show replay: Philip Bloom talks about shooting documentary for CNN

By site editor Dan Chung:

Philip Bloom has recently been travelling the globe as DOP on an upcoming documentary series for CNN. On the Teradek/Newsshooter live show at IBC last week Matt Allard and myself had a chance to sit down and discuss the challenges with him.

Phil's A-camera of choice for the CNN doc was the Sony F55. Photo courtesy of Philip Bloom — Phil’s A-camera of choice for the CNN doc was the Sony F55

Among the topics covered were what it was like for him to go back to shooting broadcast TV, his choice of cameras for the series and his use of the MoVI. Philip also talks about the importance of good audio (ironically we had a few audio interference issues during the chat – apologies for that).

Hopefully it won’t be too long before we can see the fruits of Phil’s labours on CNN.

Sony cameras including an a7S on a MoVI ready to shoot. Photo courtesy of Philip Bloom — Sony cameras and a MoVI ready to shoot. Photo courtesy of Philip Bloom

By Dan Chung

Co-founder of Newsshooter, Dan Chung has over 20 years of experience working behind a camera. His career started in photography but evolved into documentary, multimedia and broadcast TV. He shot the first news video on a DSLR and has been on staff at Reuters, The Guardian and CNBC. Dan heads up the editorial team at www.photogearnews.com.