NC TV Station Profiles a Member of the Paparazzi

WORTH A LOOK! Listen to how he lets the nat sound and the talk outside the interivew TELL THE STORY and move it forward.

WTAE Welcomes Westminster BC Students

Capstone students traveled with students in the Producing/Directing class (BC 308) to Pittsburgh this week for a tour at WTAE-TV. Westminster grad and Channel 4 assignment editor Sarah Bowers came to work early to oversee our group of 14 as we shuffled through the newsroom, studios and master control. She even arranged some time with news director Bob Longo who sat down in the studio to talk with us.

I want to extend my appreciation to both of them and to everyone else at Channel 4 we visited and met. Look for more on our conversation with WTAE's top news guru in the days ahead.

Newspapers Now Winning Television Awards

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has posted its list of “Best Television Photojournalism 2007” awards and this year they include categories for one-man bands (NPPA calls it solo video journalists- the SVJ) and video produced by the web. This is another signal of convergence and new media as the “Television” awards were once the domain of camera and editing teams from television.

Now newspapers are winning in the “Web” category with video stories on the web—as is the case for The Washington Post with an award for “48 Hour Web Editing.” More evidence old media’s world is changing. This would also signal an opportunity to rename the awards. Perhaps it's time to change "television" in the award title to "video."

The NPPA 2007 Best TV Photojournalism Awards posted on the Poynter Institute’s web site also includes student awards. One category recognizes work done in a seven day deadline period called "weekly assignment." Perhaps we should look at this as an assignment in our classes engaging video production? You can check out all the winners online. Poynter even include the judge’s comments. I am annoyed by the “Neighborhood America” spot that runs before you can see the stories. That’s one way to underwrite the cost of posting the winners and reaching chief photographers and news directors.

The Onion- Mocking News Across Media

You have The Daily Show and Weekend Update has always been there on SNL.

But The Onion has mocked news in print then on radio (The Onion Radio News with Doyle Redland). Now The Onion is going VIDEO.

Mini-movie Flashback

It's spring break and quiet on campus. I've decided to repost one of the BC 251/Video Production Mini-movies from last semester--
Here's Shayna Marti's NIGHTMARE ON CAMPUS.
It includes some nice sequencing of shots. Good use of reaction shots and cutaways for using typical home video gear.
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Day in Reverse is a group effort. I think it works well as a student created work that demonstrates an effective/creative use of a sequence of shots to tell a story. Wipes and dissolves are to be used at appropriate times in editing-- they will never replace good sequencing and storytelling.



Here's Nicky P.'s Mini-movie: My Family's Thanksgiving

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Produced by Woosub Lee (BC 251/Video Production/Fall 2006).