1st Edition
Video Journalism for the Web A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling
By Kurt Lancaster
Copyright 2013
168 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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As newspapers and broadcast news outlets direct more resources toward online content, print reporters and photojournalists are picking up video cameras and crafting new kinds of stories with their lenses. Creating multimedia video journalism requires more than simply adapting traditional broadcast techniques: it calls for a new way of thinking about how people engage with the news and... Read more
Introduction: What is Documentary Journalism? 1. Difference in Style: Documentary Journalism vs. Broadcast News Interlude: Interview with Bill Gentile: On Backpack Journalism 2. Finding a Story and Shaping the Structure: Starting with Character in Jigar Mehta's The Recession Proof Artist Interview with the Renaud Brothers: Becoming a Documentary Journalist 3. Shooting the Image: Composition and Lighting in Travis Fox's Narcorridos and Nightlife in Mexicali and Crisis in Darfur Expands Interview with Ann Derry, video director, The New York Times: Short Video Documentaries 4. Writing a Script from Interviews: Icarus Refried: A Pro-Creative Process Interview with Jimmy Orr, Deputy Web Editor, The Los Angeles Times: The Most Important Journalists 5. Editing for Rhythm: Travis Fox's Redefining China's Family: Women 6. Getting Clean Audio and Crafting a Sound Design--an Audio Workshop with Philip Bloom, Travis Fox, and Wes Pope Interlude: The Importance of Blogging and the Watchdog Reporter: From an interview with John Yemma, Editor, The Christian Science Monitor 7. The Blogging Journalist: Travis Fox and the MexiBorder Stories 8. Conclusion
Biography
Kurt Lancaster is the author of DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video. He is an associate professor at Northern Arizona University where he teaches digital filmmaking and multimedia journalism in the School of Communication.
"Lancaster's writing, interviews, and real-world examples will give you a great launch pad for advancing your work as a documentary journalist." --Brian Storm, Founder and Executive Producer, MediaStorm, mediastorm.com
