In the first post of this little series on improving web video, I looked at sequences.
The point I tried to stress was the control that you have with sequences. You can decide how the story gets told. And before the ‘ethical’ lobby get on my back, I don’t mean control the story in terms of [...]

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I got a mention in Press Gazette this week thanks to Graham Holliday asking my view on “handling the increased time demands of producing new and old media”.
The piece also has views from The Sun’s Graham Dudman and offers a nice insight in to the way they handle the digital transition in the newsroom.
As an [...]

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A model for the 21st century newsroom: pt1 - the news diamond « Online Journalism Blog
Paul sets the bar with some clear thinking on how to look at content in the new newsroom
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Paul Bradshaw has been doing some work on “a number of models around the news process, newsgathering, interactivity and business models.” The results are fantastic.
I particularly like his ‘news diamond’ concept.
Go and take a look at the kind of thing that should be shaping discussion in newsrooms for the next few months.

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Over the last few weeks of training I have found myself repeating a mantra for improving video that I thought I would share over a couple of posts.
A lot of newspaper/web/videographer (or whatever we are calling it this week!) video out is picking the right thing to show but in execution suffers in three main [...]

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and those that would take advantage…

Why? 

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According to Comscore the average length of online video is 2.7 minutes.
Does that mean that all of our video needs to be less than three minutes?
I don’t think so. But perhaps we need to consider the editing process as something that continues beyond the computer software.
Chunks
The concept of chunking content for the web is something [...]

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A fun day training today as lunch was interrupted by a protest outside the main building.
The protest was against the Editor of the Sunday Times (amongst others) who have been in the middle of a bit of a political storm around investigative stories published about Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
You can see a whole special section [...]

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