5 Responses

1. Markus Huendgen

   November 4th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

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   Uha - i love those google translations The town “Essen” got translated into “food” and “eating”… very funny indeed!

2. Andy

   November 4th, 2007 at 7:50 pm

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   Thanks Markus

   Have amended that.

   Good job I took out a line about stopping for lunch all the time

3. David Dunkley Gyimah

   November 4th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

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   Hey Andy

   Looks like a great water mark survey you got going there.

   Nothing beats empirical data as Jakob Nielsen has proved in his useability tests.

   Are you writing the book?

   I was thinking of the the odd variable which might influence a VJ survey e.g. different territories and working habits, inherent practices and the nature of the programmes being produced.

   Something I’ve come across, and that is producing video online may be different from producing videojournalism, which in itself has pivotal production differences.

   Last year from attending the International Video Journalism Awards in Berlin, it was interesting to see different VJ genres at play.

   Futhermore, even within videojournalism in the UK there are wide disparities in production, in what I often refer to as Videojournalism made for TV, VJ for print and integrated Videojournalism, which is more Gonzo really.

   Each one affects the workflow and time, which is what Jean Yves from the World Editor’s Forum got a sense of in the couple of hours he spent with PA.

   In Norway last year, we filmed an exercise looking at how swift it would take to film & post an interview.

   The interview took 4 minutes and the ingest and edit about 10 mins.

   Often though on long format e.g. a Ferrari shoot, post production using After Effects and key framing adds considerably to the “neat” edit/production.

   The sort of survey you’ve got going and what Markus has produced will undoubtedly have wide interests.

   I’d hedge even more so for the idea of hyperlocal amongst newspapers and new Net-News broadbandcasters, where budgets and resources will matter a great great deal.

   Cheers mate:)

4. Andy

   November 5th, 2007 at 10:50 am

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   I think that distinction between different types of journalism using video is a vital one. I think video journalism as practiced on the web is different from newspaper video or online video.

   Not that I think they are mutually exclusive or that one can’t learn from the other: a quick interview shot and edited in less than 15 mins would be a great target for anyone.

   But all these approaches are getting mashed-up in the worse way in a lot of places. People trying to do VJ in newspaper offices and newspaper people trying to tell VJ’s why what they are doing is wrong.

   I think the whole roles, responsibilities, style and approach thing needs unpicking a lot more before things move on.

   Still, thats why it’s kind of nice to be media independent - just tell great stories in the medium that works best.

   A book!! - have you seen the way I write

5. tracy

   November 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

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   Hey Andy,
   I think you’re survey was right - about one hour of production per one minute of video. But, it seems like importing the video and compressing it adds a ton more time!