Break the “rules” and ask double-barreled questions. Example: Who are you and what are you doing? “It’s an easy way to introduce the subject and the story,”
video is going to play a huge part in the future of journalism; it is more popular than blogging and social networking;
you don’t need a £20,000 camera to achieve broadcastable results. In fact, you can make high quality, high definition video for as little as £100. It’s not the kit, but how you use it
I will speculate that by 2020, real-time community video -- either online or via mobile networks -- will have reached its Gladwellian tipping point. By 2020, social networking and mobile telephony will be increasingly video-based. By 2020, voice will be dying. In 2020, the future will be seen rather than heard.
StoryVault encourages users to interview a friend or family member, usually on video, and to upload the content into the site. You can then mark some content as "private", accessible only for chosen friends or family, or you can make them available for the wider world. Over years StoryVault will develop into an invaluable record of your own family's history, and also as a resource for anyone interested in any historical event.
Last week Al Matrya educational hospital had seen a tragedy on the 22nd of May 2008 when a power outage took place , yes Power 8 outage took place for two hours leading to the dramatic death of 4 babies in the neonatal intensive care.
You must know before this outage on the 22nd of May , the hospital witnessed an another outage from three weeks before for 5 minutes and you must know that the back up electric generators did not work !!
More important you must know that the administration of that hospital in Cairo that follows the ministry of health knew that. You must know that the administration of that hospital faked the time of death of those infants three hours before the outage so it would escape the legal accountability !!
One of the first things I told myself when taking on the video job is that it would always be a huge learning process and so it has proved in recent weeks with my first ever royal visit.
First, and most importantly, NEVER get ‘in their faces’.
The visit also gave me the chance to try something new hand-held camera work. The result, as you can see on the video, is as cross between the Blair Witch Project and Morph.
It was badly filmed, badly lit and took a lot of editing to get to the vaguely acceptable standard that you see before you.
"Ollila, who resides in Michigan, runs a company there called.
V.I.O. Inc. which manufactures tiny video cameras that athletes use to capture
their adventures. He happened to have one of those cameras on him that day, and
he decided to use it capture the nightmare"
Auto controls
It doesn’t matter if they are
sub 300 pounds consumer units or high-def
camcorders, most cameras will have
extensive auto control facilities. If you are
going to get the best out of
your camera then (when you can) do the
following:
Locate the Auto Lock function for your
camera.Know how to turn
it off
Turn off the auto focus and learn how to focus
manually. The
auto focus is often slow and easily fooled by passing objects.
When shooting
an interview on the street a person may walk in front of the lens.
Your
viewer will ignore it but your camera focus may be upset. Even a very quick
refocus will distract your viewer and spoil the shot.
The general set up for
each shot would be to set the camera to
manual focus, zoom in as tight as you
can go on your subject (person or
object) and set the focus. Now, no matter how
you frame the shot, the
subject should stay in focus regardless of any passing
distractions :Interestingly whilst Andy is extooling the virtues of online video,the BBC strangely wants it journalists to cut back on the medium.According to journalism.co.uk
"The head of BBC News Interactive wants the corporationto carry less online video and instead concentrate on improving the quality of its offering.Speaking at the Future of News Conference in London today, Pete Clifton told delegates that he wanted video that complemented stories, rather than repeating the offerings of streamed News 24 or the content of an accompanying text story."
I presume that this is the old argument of being jack of all trades and master of none
.
"Assistant editor Brad Barnes, who is responsible for the
ET's digital operations, said: "We carry police appeals in the paper on online
every day, but this was completely different,
"Not only was it a first for
Cambridgeshire Police, releasing the CCTV video footage, but it was a first for
us too in carrying it.
"The huge public response shows what can be achieved
when our printed product and our website are used together.
"It is clearly
the way forward and, hopefully, we can do something similar with the police
again."
Unfortunately, like the Guardian, the broadcast production roots of a lot of the
content shows through and it looks pretty bland. Produced in conjunction with
ITN a lot of the news content is bland and lacks a distinct personality."
A general criticism that you could level at all of the
broadsheets is the lack the basics of online presentation. No consistent date
stamps for the video, a lack of clear contextual information and poor linking to
existing content are repeated mistakes. Some of it, I can imagine, are the
limitations of the content management systems. But it’s obvious that in terms of
joined up thinking the ‘convergence’ of content still has a way to go.
