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App has possibilities for breaking news
Geo-based social apps have been used in news gathering for a few years now. For example Foursquare’s “mayors” have been tapped for expertise on a particular location when it’s touched by breaking news. Gowalla “trips” created by the Austin American-Statesman got some buzz as an example of how a news organization could use these services […]
Whither to aim…
1. Point and shoot cameras. Flip type cameras with no zoom or a very short distance zoom (or worse yet, optical zoom) and no microphone input.
2. Consumer level camcorders with one smallish chip, a decent zoom and no microphone input.
3. Prosumer/low end professional level camcorders with three chips and either XLR or mini-jack mike inputs.
4. DSLRs.
…high? Low? In between?
Like I used to tell my students, you gotta know your target audience before you even think about creating a visual story. Well, the same thing applies to writing a book. In this case, The Basics of Videojournalism.
Our original demographic was high schools…then we realized there was a wider potential audience, so we have adapted to that. And we’ve also finally settled on some of the finer points about our audience, including what level of gear they need.
Roughly we’ve broken gear into four basic groups.
Whither to aim…
1. Point and shoot cameras. Flip type cameras with no zoom or a very short distance zoom (or worse yet, optical zoom) and no microphone input.
2. Consumer level camcorders with one smallish chip, a decent zoom and no microphone input.
3. Prosumer/low end professional level camcorders with three chips and either XLR or mini-jack mike inputs.
4. DSLRs.
…high? Low? In between?
Like I used to tell my students, you gotta know your target audience before you even think about creating a visual story. Well, the same thing applies to writing a book. In this case, The Basics of Videojournalism.
Our original demographic was high schools…then we realized there was a wider potential audience, so we have adapted to that. And we’ve also finally settled on some of the finer points about our audience, including what level of gear they need.
Roughly we’ve broken gear into four basic groups.
Atlantic City Forays
Some miscellaneous ephemera from my files. In this case Dennis J. “Denny” Bossone of Fox Movietone’s 1943 Miss America Pageant media credentials. Denny Bossone was a cameraman for Movietone and later KYW-TV as their chief photog. He was also known as Denny Welsh, a nickname that was held over from his brief career as an […]
Read More →LA Director of Photography Shoots Frank Caliendo… for Fox’s “Franks Picks”
The laughs are sure to come if you’re shooting with comic impersonator Frank Caliendo. Go To Team’s Skip Clark has been working with Frank nearly every week this year as he DPs the ‘Frank’s Picks’ segment for Fox’s NFL pre-game show. Every week Frank picks a new character to play as he cracks […]
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