Video Journalism For The Web Works - Here’s Why
The detractors complain about how web video journalists are wannabe’s.
The video below shows something quite the contrary.
Archive for February, 2008
Online Delivery Of Content Matters As Much As Equipment
Gear isn’t nearly as important as we are led to believe
Read that again - Gear isn’t nearly as important as we are led to believe
So how does this fit into the Solo VJ paradigm?
Although having quality video acquisition tools is important, I think the future for solo video journalists will lie more in online content distribution - not which high end camera one shoots with - or whether it was edited on a MAC or PC.
Broadcasters recognize the internet as a viable platform for content distribution
A recent article I just read touches on TV news broadcast and it highlights how entrenched traditional broadcast media is with regards to utilizing the internet for video content distribution.
The old school tv station managers are fighting tooth and nail at the idea of transforming their tv news divisions into media news divisions.
Web Video Journalism versus TV Broadcast
Michael Rosenblum has posted what I feel is a crucial commentary that hasn’t been discussed to any real extent - that of the differences between shooting VJ content for the web as opposed to shooting for traditional broadcast television.
There is a difference and I think it needs to be expounded upon as to what I and other Solo Video Journalists do and why we do it.
Newspapers report the news better than TV - here’s why
The landscape of news driven content is changing – and the fallout is reverberating across the news gathering industry in ways many are finding unsettling.
The antiquated narrow world view of TV video journalism is witnessing a wave of shooters coming into the fold that for many is a threat to a way of doing business as usual – and they are beginning to gather content that is as good, if not better, than the established way of doing things.
