“Video content on the web must differ from TV. It should be shorter, less intermediated, It should be raw and direct…Fairly conventional wisdom these days I think, but why is it that so much online news/PR video ignores this advice and comes across as ponderous and stilted.
If there were ever a search for the historical prototypes of modern videojournalism then surely Michael Apted’s 7-UP series would figure large. A brief description from MA of his epiphany with regard to video and objectivity: “…it occurred to me that maybe what I was doing was something quite different from what I thought I was doing…”
“Don’t just send me a pitch letter or a book which requires me to put together the piece. Economic pressures mean we are short staffed so we will respond better to something that is fully formed.”
Tampa Bay: where your dreams can come true, you can get the respect you deserve:
Each time you send me a video story that either makes it on the news or on our web site, Tampa Bay’s 10 will pay you TWENTY DOLLARS!
A couple of month’s back I blogged the changing skillsets required for video [...]
is about keeping photographers out of trouble, and supporting them when trouble looms.
We have been covering Photographers Rights continuously since the 4th of July, 2004.
Photography is not a crime; photography is not terrorism;
but systematic harassment of photographers… what is that?
Have you been hassled while trying to make what you thought was an innocuous photograph or [...]
Lawrence Lessig “How creativity is being strangled by the law”.
Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of “three stories and an argument.”
The video is 19 minutes long - worth listening to, even if you don’t have time to watch.
“Critics argue that the use of re-enactments suggest a callous disregard on the part of a filmmaker for what is true. I don’t agree. Some re-enactments serve the truth, others subvert it. There is no mode of expression, no technique of production that will instantly produce truth or falsehood. There is no veritas lens – [...]
“If you’re never quite sure what your rights are when you’re snapping pics, photography web site Photojojo’s 10 legal commandments of photography should give you an idea of your legal leeway. For example:
Anyone in a public place can take pictures of anything they want. Public places include parks, sidewalks, malls, etc. Malls? Yeah. Even [...]
Some months back I sold a series of photos to a national news organization. The photos covered a large festival in a local resort town. I sold around 40 photos and 3 or 4 were used in print and all made available in an online gallery.
Last week I received an email from a journalist informing [...]
In the late nineteenth century after 400 years characterized by the relentless pursuit of optical accuracy European painters turned their backs on realism almost overnight. Why? Because the Holy Grail of capturing likeness had been made available to all with the advent of chemical photography. Are the current slew of technological advances about to wreak similar changes in the way we document the world with video?
