Video – Page 15 – Visual Journalism

November 5, 2009

Amy Vitale on Shooting Video

The Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins talked with photojournalist Amy Vitale on her new work in video. Vitale, whose still credits include National Geographic, Newsweek and Geo, has this comment towards the end: This is the best time to be a photo journalist. We have more tools available than ever before and we also have an audience bigger than anytime in...

At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Video

September 19, 2009

NPPA Virtual Video Workshop is TODAY!!

Find a comfy chair with a good WiFi signal and stock up on snacks–you’ve got about 90 minutes until the National Press Photographers Association’s Virtual Video Workshop starts up. Lined up for the day: 10:30 a.m., Darren Durlach, WBFF-TV in Baltimore, NPPA’s 2009 Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year, “Six Essential Skills To Maximize Your Storytelling Process” 11:45...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Video

August 12, 2009

Virtual Video Workshop – Sat., Sept. 19

FYI … The Virtual Video Workshop – A Workshop you can attend in your pajamas. Darren Durlach The Durlach Attack – essential skills at the speed of news Will demonstrate how “staying in the moment” and being an “active photographer” leads to better sound and pictures. He’ll also show some recent stories he wrote as well as shot. Boyd Huppert...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

July 17, 2009

Video Workshops at Home

We all know friends and colleagues who are worried – will their paper survive, will they survive the next round of cuts … so how do you prepare yourself to either find a new line of work or keep your current one? If you’re a (youngish) dinosaur like me, who grew up with Tri-X, Fujicolor and F3HPs you need to...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

July 11, 2009

Style, In Great Light

New series on the Washington Post called “Scene In” that looks at personal style. First segment is shot at Dupont Circle as a series of person-on-the-street interviews, which could have gone horribly awry – but didn’t. Very clean, great details, gorgeous light and composition and a nice pacing, assisted by some nat sound music. And I love the way they’re...

Competitions/Tech Talk/Video

June 20, 2009

The High Line

Also first seen on the New York Times‘ Lens blog … a marvelously simple and effective documentary piece on the conversion of the abandoned High Line railway into a park. The framing of the two interviews is bordering on exquisite and there are some artsy camera movements that work amazingly well to help the viewer get s sense of place...

Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

June 9, 2009

"Chain of Life" – Video storytelling at its best

My good friend Seth Siditsky at the Newark Star-Ledger sent along a link to his staff’s latest project – a look at a chain of kidney donors and recipients. It’s an amazing story, and one that works amazingly well in video. Spend the time watching it.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

May 27, 2009

Start your multimedia kit NOW

One of the easiest ways to start doing simple video is with a Flip Ultra or Mino – and you can get the Mino for $95, shipped, now on Woot.com. We have an Ultra and a newer Mino and use them far more than we expected to – great fun and, if you treat it well, great quality.

Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

April 25, 2009

Two Down, One to Go: Student Work Roundup

At the end of every semester, the deluge comes in: semester-long projects, last minute reshoots – they all flood in. They come on my class server, by CD and flash drive. In the last week alone, I have ingested 8 gigabytes worth of images, audio and video … the little iMac in my office was really looking forward to this...

Good Work/Tech Talk/Video

April 22, 2009

Fisheye on CNN

CNN has apparently modified a Flip camera with a fisheye lens and is giving you – yes you! – a tour of their work space. Nice to see they’re using technology to save journalism … (Okay, that was pretty snarky, and it is kind of cool …) Embedded video from CNN Video