What video camera do you use? How should we train reporters to use video? What’s the secret to video on the Web?
Good questions and I attempt to answer them here for my friend, Steve Garfield who has been commissioned to write a book about video journalism and asked me to contribute to a chapter about newspapers using Web video.
Steve’s questions to me are in bold and my answers follow.
1. Why are newspapers training their reporters and photographers to become video producers?
They have observed the sea change with the medium that YouTube ushered in and are catching up to the fact that web video is now a mainstream activity and an affordable form of online journalism. Quite simply that is where the audience is.
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Top local VJ’s Danielle Guerra and Mark Scheffler will join Robb Montgomery in leading the video instruction at the Chicago Sun-Times and help out students with their cameras and videos.
Danielle is prolific full-time video journalist working at the Northwest Herald in the Chicago suburbs and Mark is a local freelance VJ who files reports for Crain’s Chicago Business and his own company businesspov.com
The training will now be even better - consider yourself upgraded! Many thanks for these excellent teachers who are volunteering their services to the Visual Editors non-profit.
FAQ
I have filed a FAQ on the Camp VJ page that can offer more detail about cameras, editing software and more.
– http://campvj.ning.com/notes
If you have any additional questions do not hesitate to ask.
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