Archive for VJ Training
May 1, 2008 at 11:59 am · Filed under VJ Training
Ever the outspoken Solo Video Journalism detractor, Stewart Pittman aka “Lenslinger“, has put his spin over on NewsVideographer about the difficulties that many shooters are beginning to experience working as solo video journalists.
He and I don’t see eye to eye on much and even though I respect the amount of time he has invested as a broadcast professional, I regard the closed nature of the business as something that needs to come burning down to the ground to coin Michael Rosenblum.
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March 26, 2008 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Content Distribution, VJ Training
Adobe is conducting a web based seminar targeted at those who work in the newspaper industry who are responsible for creating, editing and delivering video content for the web.
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February 3, 2008 at 1:46 pm · Filed under Content Distribution, The Business of VJ, VJ Training, Video Journalism
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.
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February 3, 2008 at 1:11 pm · Filed under VJ Training, Video Journalism
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.
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November 29, 2007 at 11:22 am · Filed under VJ Training, Video Journalism
My cyber colleague and mentor, David Dunkley-Gyimah has posted a blog entry entitled “Hail the Immersive Video Journalist” introducing me as one who is uniquely qualified to bring the skills of being a “Jack Of All Trades, Master Of Them All” to the aquatic realm.
Once I got past the blushing of seeing my credentials being promoted and what have you, there are those who might stumble across my site and wonder what does the term “Immersive Video Journalist” as coined by David, actually represent?
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