Check out the following sites:
10 Tips for Video Journalism
Visual Editors
Media Storm
Mercury News Photo (Great video stories)
Visual Journalist
Using the 10 Tips for Video Journalism, find 2 videos to view and critique. The videos should be found through the links from these sites and should all be shot in a video journalism style.
1. Go through the 10 tips as you watch the videos and comment on the video's use of each tip?
Where do they stray if at all?
2. What do you find some of the most effective elements of the video (look at cinematography - shots, lighting, environment. sound - fx, natural sound, use of music. interviews - how they're shot, choice of clips, how long do they stay on the interviewee?).
3. What if anything do you find not as effective.
4. What is your overall impression of the video? Are you captivated? Inspired? Bored? What mood or emotions do you feel?
5. What ideas do you have to improve the video - editing, interviewing, shooting, sound?
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