Video – Page 3 – Visual Journalism

November 16, 2009

DigitalJournalist.org to be Unplugged?

Say it isn’t so … but Dirck Halstead, who has run the Digital Journalist online magazine for a dozen years, has informed his readers that the site may go dormant after December’s issue. Long-time sponsor Canon has withdrawn its financial support, but he’s hoping to keep it alive through PayPal donations. Halstead was on of the pioneers of online, non-broadcast...

Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

November 14, 2009

Video Rolls Online

Sorry, bad pun in the headline … but the New York Times‘ Brian Stetler has taken a look at how online advertising is booming – at least, those that are attached to online video. He brings up that video is expensive, but doesn’t go into much detail on why, so let me hit a few points here: Gear is expensive....

Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Video

November 10, 2009

We Need to Increase Online Profits! Cut the Video!

Seems insane, but it’s what’s happening – as newsrooms trim to save dollars, they let a lot of strong multimedia journalists go. Or, worse, they make weak multimedia folks to mainstream stories. It takes skill, it takes talent and it takes time to tell a story well in video – and if you’ve never done it, you just don’t know...

Tech Talk/Video

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

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