Yunus

This morning for the shooting of a show about advertising we went to a company called Digitouch. The General Manager happens to be a friend from High School, Yunus Güvenen.

New Music Program : 3,5mm

Today we started the shooting of a new program about music, mostly DJ's camed 3,5mm. Hopefully it will work out and be on air soon. I'll tell you more about it later.

Cameras

I've been trying out many cameras those past few weeks, for the show I host with my friend Burak on Şipşak.tv.

I really need to get my own camera now.
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Quick review :

Olympus D-SLR E-30 : Pretty good.
Canon SX 1 IS : Very good but a battery eater. I had to buy four new batteries every 24 hours or so.
Canon Ixus 100 IS (USA : Powershot SD780 IS), pretty good for its size, does everything even 720p video shooting.
Canon Ixus 95 IS (USA : Powershot SD1200 IS): Standard Point&Shoot camera.
Samsung ST50 (USA : TL100): Not tested yet.
Canon SX 200 IS : Pretty strong compact camera with a 12x zoom and manual settings.
Ricoh R10 : minimalist and lots of customizable functions but image quality could have been better.

















Why would they have different names fo different countries. It's not like they mean anything !

Tarik Akan & Serif Sezer

Tonight I went to the premiere of the movie "Deli Deli Olma" (Don't be Crazy), More than famous actors Tarık Akan and Şerif Sezer were there. Tarık Akan is the most handsome man in Turkey, past, present and future (according to Ekin). Şerif Sezer sarted her career in the award winning Turkish movie "The Way" (1982).

Portecho

The Turkish band Portecho (Elec-Trip Records) came to the office today for an interview.

The guys (Tan Tunçag and Deniz Cuylan) were pretty cool. Check out their page on MySpace. Their last Album "Studio Plastico" is out. The interview will be here next Friday (in Turkish). You can read this article about them in the NY Times.




























Their last video clip was taken off the air after 4 days of broadcast due to some pressures :

Mithat Bereket

Today we did an interview with Mithat Bereket. He hosts the bi-weekly news and foreign affairs documentary "PUSULA," meaning "compass". Pusula is broadcasted on TRT, Turkey's national public broadcasting network. Before joining TRT. You can watch his documentaries here (in Turkish).














You can see his photo on the TRT's building near Taksim.

Arda Turan

Today we went to interview famous Turkish Football player Arda Turan.

Buildings

Burcu Esmersoy

Today we went to do an interview with Burcu Esmersoy, I didn't know her until today actually and everyone was making fun of me for it. She hosts the sports program on the big Turkish News Channel NTV and on the Sport Channel Ntv Spor. Now I met her in person and she's a pretty cool person, very "humble".

Car Show

This morning we went to a closed track outside Istanbul to try out the Fiat Bravo Sport for one of our show : Otosentez. Another rainy day.

Fiat 500

Today we went out to shoot the new car from Fiat the 500 (cinquecento). The rain was pouring all day long. The car is very small but we fit 5 big guys inside it.

Şipşak

After shooting some product reviews for the Teknosohbet show, I've decided to have my "own" show (co-hosted with Burak). It will be about cameras, there will be reviews, guests, tips, how-to's, etc. Today we prepared the generic and the roll-caption. I haven't seen the result yet, I hope it'll be as expected. The will be called Şipşak (ship shak), onomatopoeia designing the sound of the shutter, like "Click" in English. The show will be in Turkish and twice a week under the Televidyon host page.

My 11th 15 mn of Fame

Presenting the point & shoot digital camera Olympus mju 1030SW on Teknosohbet.tv

My 10th 15 mn of Fame

Presenting the D-SLR Pentax K10D with my friend Ahmet Necati Uzer on Teknosohbet.tv

My 9th 15 mn of Fame

Presenting the D-SLR Sony Alpha 350 on Teknosohbet.tv

Stop Motion

Even though today is Sunday I came to work with Emre to work on a basic stop motion animation for a new program we broadcast on Televidyon.com, called Sinevidyon. A show about cinema (in Turkish).

Here is the short animation's result :

Teknosohbet Under Arrest

Today at the office we gathered all the cellphones we had and did this set up. In Turkey when people get arrested with guns or drugs or stolen good, the police have them posed like that. The actual program is here.

My 8th 15 mn of Fame

Presenting the Kodak Easyshare M753 on Teknosohbet.tv