The lowdown with Herb Corona

With Kelly Slater and Herb Corona at the Rip Curl Pro 2011

Herb Corona is a video maker who hails from Caracas, Venezuela, and now resides in Geelong, Victoria. I met Herb surfing at Jan Juc - he is a super positive, motivated, inspiring, talented and friendly guy and was one of the only ones out there smiling.

Herbie is involved in many sports media projects: a freelancer for his own media company, Surf Coast Media, a cameraman and editor for local media and sport companies, and now a media teacher.

We discussed his attraction to working in sports media, how he got to where he is, his views on new media, advice for potential media workers and what the future holds for him.

Since interviewing Herby, we linked up to cover local news and sport for News Geelong including the 2011 Rip Curl Pro, 2012 Rip Curl Pro and stories with Pulse Television.

Filmed and edited by Herb, check out our coverage of the Rip Curl Pro 2011 here,
(click forward to the 1 minute mark to view the story).

Interview with Deano, Frontier Wakeskates

On Saturday, 26th February I interviewed my brother, Andrew 'Deano' Deane. Although younger than me, he is an inspiration in his creativity, ingenuity, his can-do-anything attitude, his mad board skills and his downright honest personality. He has a fascination with media, design and construction, is a skilled photographer, board rider and the owner and maker of Australia's only wood wake-skate company Frontier Wakeskates.

We spoke about what drew him to photography and digital video, the freedom and ease new media technologies enable in terms of creativity and timely exposure, the benefits underground sports may experience in terms of growth and progression, the advantages a smaller grassroots company can have over the larger brands and I also found out more about his latest project.

Click here to view Part One of my interview with Deano.


And here for Part Two.


I really enjoyed the interview, I discovered some interesting views on sports media and I loved being on location filming.

Here are a couple more clips, filmed and edited by Deano, on wakeskating in Melbourne and Frontier Wakeskates.