My Cyber-mentor and solo video journalist David Dunkley-Gyimah has posted a cutting edge video that shows & speaks the language of video journalism while incorporating the new language of cinema.
Is it true journalism or is it entertainment?
Rules are meant to be broken - what if the answer is that this is both journalism AND entertainment? He elaborates more on his blog about this process - highly recommended reading! http://www.vimeo.com/813234
Hi Cliff
They occupy different parts of the spectrum - entertainment and journalism - and ever so often they shake hands.
The video above you’re referring to is a trailer, but in fairness the production will combine said elements.
There is a long tradition of feature stories, as opposed to news i.e. breaking hard stories, having such post production make overs.BBC TV’s “Reportage” which I worked on on the early 90s is just one example.
Telecine (e.g. After Effects), Typography (Livetype) and a DOP approach to videojournalism (e.g. depth of field and lighting) are terms rarely liberally used in vjism.
The signficant differences and shared space between TV, Cinema and VJism is such that this not so new-kid-on-the- block can borrow from others, as well as chart its own course.
It’s interesting don’t you think that we might talk of genres of cinema, even television making, but hitherto little has been said about emerging multiple styles of videojournalism.
Early days yet, though we glimpsed some differing narratives at the International Videojournalism Awards in Berlin couple of years ago.
Videojournalism, TV, Cinema are all living arts. They change, grow, evolve - that’s all that’s happening, the ageing process.
I guess for me a couple of things have altered somewhat from 94 Vjing.
More poignantly somewhere in a bedroom right now is a teenager re-inventing one person productions with a whole new style of their own - and that can’t be a bad thing.
d
p.s on viewmagazine.tv there’s a 960X400 file of the 64 sec trailer which I have just edged through at break point at 9mb - reduced from 300mb. Also look out for Duncan Whiteman, a genius coder whose model for HD down the net and an app that folds several broadcast tools together on a PC is wowing observers.
