Wednesday 5 November 2008

Video Journalism Workshop 29.10.08

A Video journalist came from the bbc to talk to us. I found this quite usefull from the camera techniques that he was telling us.
This first thing i learnt about was what the minimum shots should be used within one sequence, these were a close up of the hands so you can see what they are doing, a close up of the face so that you are able to identify who it is, a wide shot to give the audience a idea of where the person you are filming is, a shot over the shoulder so you can see as the subject sees and the final shot is a creative shot to make it a bit more interesting.
The second bit of valuable information i got out of this workshop were 4 tips on our documentarys. These were that you must hit the audiences Mind in the sence of teaching them something new, secondly the Heart by making the viewers feel for what you are filming and touch them, thirdly money because when you bring money into it for instance the credit crunch it will get alot of people interested and finlly it was a technique of keeping all the eyes together, being the eyes of the people and the eye of the camera (although this is for interviews)

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