Over at Newsphotographer.com, Angela Grant has an excellent post about the “Value of enough time to shoot and edit.” She used one of my breaking news videos as an example of the quality vs. quantity debate. The good enough approach valued by online gurus like Howard Owens basically puts production time on a fast track [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 20, 2008
Merlin Video archive is way cool
As more newspapers buildout their multimedia departments, a lot of discussions are taking place about the best way to archive all the video and audio they’re producing. Cost is a huge consideration, as is the long-term viability of storage formats. In fifty years will you be able to read the data on an aging DVD?
At [...]
September 16, 2008
New Canon 5D Mark II shoots HD video!
Update: See links to video samples at the end of this post.
Ok, the rumor mill can stop now. Just after midnight, Canon USA announced the much anticipated EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. This is the full-frame camera that multimedia producers and photojournalists have been waiting for. Yes, it has a new 21.1 megapixel CMOS [...]
September 15, 2008
Canon HF-10 performs stellar during training
Last week’s two-day video storytelling workshop for six journalists from The Spokesman-Review newsroom went well. On day one I pounded into them the fundamentals of shooting, sequencing and storytelling. I then turned them lose to shoot the rest of the afternoon. This was a highly motivated group. All in the class wanted to learn how [...]
September 13, 2008
Early TV hurricane coverage lacks, but Meg Loucks rocks!
I’ve been watching the Hurricane Ike coverage on TV and on the Internet since daylight. I’m about to toss the remote at my TV screen. CNN has tons of reporters all over the region. They are transmitting live with small satellite units from where the devastation is. You would think their reporters would actually talk [...]
September 6, 2008
A new crop of video journalists await
Right now my office looks like a camera store warehouse. Boxes of Canon HF-10 video cameras, Sennheiser wireless kits and shotgun mics will soon be deployed into The Spokesman-Review newsroom. Next week, seven S-R journalists will attend a two-day in-house video workshop where I will teach the basics of shooting and editing video.
Each journalist has [...]
