The news business is rarely funny. Much of what we do every day is report on devastating acts of nature, the plight of those without voices – the problems of the world. For most of those stories it’s best to rely on the Joe Friday approach: just the facts, which almost always speak louder than any adjective [...]
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Until about the past decade, making films or videos required thousands of dollars of equipment, years of experience and an outlet, be it a theater or a TV station. Now we have cheap and good cameras that most of us carry in our pockets, plus numerous ways to disseminate the content. As a result, video [...]
Let’s talk about why we’re not talking, shall we? I’ve noticed a recent video journalism trend against treating the audience to a bit of narration. Yes, I said narration: the stuff so many video journalists shy from. Why the shyness? I’ve got some theories. More on that in a second. First, though, before I go casting [...]
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Tagged Bob Calo, Bob Dylan, D.A. Pennebaker, Kent Brockman, Les Blank, Lightnin' Hopkins, Terry Zwigoff, The Daily Show, The New York Times, The Onion, Will Lyman
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Whenever I go out on an assignment I get a few of the same questions from onlookers who see me with my tripod and my reasonably large video camera: “What channel are you from?” or “When will this air?” But my favorite, and the one I get most often after I explain that the video [...]
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Tagged Erik German, GlobalPost, John Branch, Marcus Yam, NBC News, Shayla Harris, Solana Pyne, The Atavist, The Daily, the Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Seattle Times
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