Video is now crucial for content creation and PR. “All the emerging money is around web video, which is what all of the papers want now – so if you are going to cover a story, why wouldn’t you film it as well?,” says Pat Younge, BBC’s chief creative officer, in The Journalist magazine.
The piece suggests that anyone with a smart phone, editing software and a little imagination can put together a top rate video package. It also suggests that advice and teaching by Michael Rosenblum, author of iPhone Millionaire is a better guide to low-tech video production than its get-rich-quick title suggests.
It recommends checking out the New Jersey Star-Ledger (nj.com), whose journalists have been nominated for Emmys for their video content. Shot with a single camera it is then edited down to the most dramatic two minutes.
Also have a look at the work of filmaker Adam Curtis, who writes a blog for the BBC (bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis)
The future, says The Journalist, is a huge collection of short bursts of footage comprising only video news clips. “The prospect that this kind of material will become the main fibre of the web, rather than text-based ‘pages’ is one that is now common currency – at least among crystal-ball gazers.”
Boundaries between print, television and the internet will continue to blur until it is no longer clear to the consumer how a channel started. Journalists, PRs and content marketeers could benefit from thinking more visually as these forces shape journalism in the years to come.
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