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LAS VEGAS: This an interview I made with the 27-year-old founding editor for Moscow’s youth-oriented Akzia newspaper. Svetlana Maximchenko was in Las Vegas to pick up her award for World’s Best Designed newspaper and also speak at the SND APME congress.
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Data is all around us and this Radiohead music video and the making of video below illustrate how digital information (Information sent by lasers, reflected off objects and then sensed and recorded by computers) can draw very real and compelling moving images.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.
I have seen LIDAR (Laser recording cameras) used before to capture still images. I have seen these “cameras” used in Chicago for architecture projects. This is sort of like that and completely unlike it because this is now an art form and a cinema experience. Check it.
Here’s what the edited and polished video looks like.
Want to manipulate the data and cut your own version of the music video? Knock yourself out, Radiohead has released the data behind their video for “House of Cards” for you to manipulate. Visit http://code.google.com/radiohead for the code and information on how to manipulate it.
Speaking of data here is the latest Comscore data for May, 2008
Over 12 billion online videos were consumed for the month.
The highlights
- 74 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
- The average online video viewer watched 228 minutes of video.
- 82.2 million viewers watched 4.1 billion videos on YouTube.com (50.4 videos per viewer).
- 54.8 million viewers watched 703 million videos on MySpace.com (12.8 videos per viewer).
- 6.8 million viewers watched 88 million videos on Hulu.com (13.0 videos per viewer).
- The duration of the average online video was 2.7 minutes.
Can you get high quality with smaller cameras?
Watch the video below . . .
Even though I shoot with a Sony Z1U, recently I’ve been crooning over the A1U. My Z1U camera bag is so large, and so is the camera. I can’t take it everywhere with me. I’d love a camera and accessories that I could pack into a regular-sized backpack. Just because I could take it more places.
Angela Grant,
Multimedia producer, San Antonio Express-News on her blog, Newsvideographer.
Really small cameras can tell really big stories
I made this film for Angela and every video journalist like her who may need to convince their peers and their bosses of what is Web possible with a lightweight cam like the A1. Hopefully we can save a few backs and a few bucks out there.
The ability to tell really big stories with really small cameras is something that is fascinating to share with colleagues.
I work with editors-in-chief and their staff in many newsrooms and classrooms around the world to develop training and design new workflows and the challenge is to not only raise the quantity, the number of videos a newsroom is able to post online, but the quality of those stories as well.
Web video is an incredibly rich medium, one that print-trained journalists can succeed in.
This video was filmed with a Sony A1U, a Manfrotto monopod (With the tripod legs that stow inside the pole - Costs 114 Euros in Berlin) and the Rode NTG-1 shotgun mic. I don’t care much for the shotgun mic that comes bundled with the A1)
Oh, and for waterproofing the filming at the Falls I brought my small bicycling backpack, a two-cent plastic bag and a non-lubricated condom. That is not a typo. A waterproof condom is very handy for using shotgun microphones near water and even underwater. (Thanks to David Dunkley Gyimah for extending my underwater sound recordist knowledge. Always practical, he is.)
