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	Welcome New Members ! Tanya Mras is Jetsetters Magazine newest Las Vegas Correspondent. Tanya like plays, culture, concerts, film festivals, fine dining, comedy and resorts. Tanya's latest feature is about Wayne Brady. Michelle Schoser is our latest vivacious Jetsetters Magazine writer. Michelle enjoys spas, concerts, hotels, the beach, and especially beauty assignments. Jerry Nemanic is a freelance journalist, travel writer, and former journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle. Jerry is a retired Chicago English professor and travels the world with his wife Donna, primarily in Europe. `Member News` Lena Mabra will be bringing is back features from the island of Kauai, about surfing, luaus, hiking the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, and zip lines. Jerry Nemanic is just back from a two week stay of over indulgence in villas in Italy and will soon return to Europe for another eventful Germany journey. Jim Hollister is based in Boston, and he is Jetsetters Magazine's Luxury Travel Editor; he will bring back new fresh encounters in the luxury travel arena. Edwin Ali is just back from a visit to St. Augustine. Edwin's main travel beat is the Caribbean. He will be reporting soon on summer music festivals in the islands.. Kriss Hammond, Editor of Jetsetters Magazine, has a new feature about Catalina Island and new summer gear for 2007. Carolyn Proctor is back from a journey to Suriname. Carol also writes romance novels. Her next Jetsetters Magazine assignments are in the Pacific Northwest. Michelle Schoser just completed a feature about The Prado restaurant in Balboa Park, and you next will read her feature about the Ivy Hotel in San Diego. Bobbie Buchanan is our most experienced outdoors writer - she grew up in Africa. Her next assignments will see more exciting adventures in Florida and South Africa. Important Links Jetsetters Magazine Press Release http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/pressfacts.html Jetsetters Magazine and our other websites Fliers in PDF format http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/press1.pdf Jetsetters Magazine and other websites Media/Advertising Kit in PDF format http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/adrates.html A Better Way To Send Us Your Photos We are getting so many photos with your stories, and it has been a real chore for you and us to scan and upload and for us to then open and save each photo. We found a better way. Sony has a new product that is free, and it allows you to scan all your photos and put them in an album and then email us the link. You can even leave a brief description of each photo for us so we can identify the photo or place it where it goes in the feature. Let's all start using this wonderful system so our email is not clogged up, and you do not have to send us a zip file or tedious attachments. Go to this site for details: www.imagestation.com Keith Bellows is editor-in-chief of National Geographic Traveler magazine, which was nominated for a 2003 National Magazine Award for general excellence. He is widely recognized in the travel industry and has a keen eye for what makes a good travel story. Previously, Keith was executive producer of Excite, launched Baby-Center.com, and ran his own media development company. He has edited more than 30 magazines, worked for Sports Illustrated (writer), Reader’s Digest (editor), Disney (magazine developer), ESPN (color commentator), and written for AARP: The Magazine, Washingtonian, Parenting, and many other magazines. He is the author of The Canuck Book and the 1998 Winter Olympics ACCESS Guide for ABC TV. How To Shoot Quality Video 1. Watch what your microphone is picking up, including the wind. The best mics are a boom mics and lavaliers. A lavalier is attached to the person you are interviewing and are effective from a distance of about 100 feet. Usually the lavalier is wireless, if it will work on your camcorder, if not a lavalier with a cord works, as well as a boom mic. An alternative is to get a digital voice recorder for interviews, that can be dubbed over the video, if it is apparent that the person is talking away from the camera, or the shot is say showing someone rock climbing, with their backs toward the camera. Straight on shots of people should use the boom mic or th lavalier. The Sony digital voice recorders are the best because they have fire wire capabilities and can plug right into a fire wire capable computer. 2. Set up your shots. The number one problem with people learning to shoot video is that they swing the camera around too much, thinking that they are panning a scene. When you set up a shot, either on a tripod or a rock or a solid object, the camera does not move that often. Pans are slow, slower than you think. Shoot as much video of the ONE set shot or location that you think you need with out moving the camera. Then set up your next shot. Shoot more video than necessary, we can edit it later. 3. When interviewing people, again set up the shot, make it a long steady shot, especially if they are sitting down. Remember, TV is about action, but that doesn't mean the action has to move fast, swinging the camera around doesn't increase the viewers enjoyment of the action. The next time you watch an adventure TV program, realize how long the camera is rolling on the same scene,notice how long the shot was set up. Let the subject create the action when they move, like the people going up the rocks when rock climbing. You would pan the camera up slowly as the person moves up the wall, real slow, with out moving the position of the camera or the tripod. Notice the next time you watch TV how few the camera angles are changed, especially sit coms. 4. Shoot lead in and end shots with yourself, saying something like ". . . This is Kriss Hammond, reporting for Jetsetters dot TV, from Boomtown, Montana . . ." 5. Now comes the hard part, scripting a good, enjoyable feature with background information that can be dubbed over the video. This adds viable information about the tour operator, types of tours, the adventure itself. Remember the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of solid journalism, but make your sentences for video more of a declarative sentence, shorter that when writing for print or the web. Add only pertinent info to the video clip, or send us the information in a MP3 or WAV file, or better yet, a copy from your digital voice recorder, or right on the video itself. Get a Model Release Sometimes you may need a model release when photographing or videog taping people. Normally a model release is used to waiver a person's rights to your image of them used for editorial purposes in Jetsetters Magazine or on our new show, www.jetsetters.tv (under development). A person does not have to be a professional "model" but the model release is used for "any person" within the image. Just cut and paste this simple model release on your blank Jetsetters Magazine letterheads (after you make a copy from the master) and then have the subject or model sign it and then mail it back to the offices of Jetsetters Magazine in the envelopes in your media kit. Date: __________________ Location: ___________________ Time of Shoot: ________________________ Model Release: I, _______________ (name of person shot) agree to allow Jetsetters Magazine to use my image in either digital video or still or print format or online formats for editorial purposes with total expressed consent without any compensation whatsoever. Signed: _____________________ Name of Model/Talent Date:___________ Photographer/videographer signature ________________ Date: __________________________ `Keep the wind in your sails - Kriss Hammond, Editor, Jetsetters Magazine`