Advanced Video

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Advanced Video
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Network News

• ABC World News Webcast
• http//abcnews.go.com/wn/webcast
• 1 Source of News (Harris Interactive Poll)
• 39 TV, 24 np, 18 online
• By 2012 (37 TV, 26 online, 19 np)
• 48 have visited a video-sharing site
• 33-2006 (PEW)

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Newspapers

• Dailies (4-8 videos per week)
• Weeklies (1-4 videos per week)
• 2-3 minutes average length
• Final Cut Pro most common
• 4 hours to produce 1 minute of video
• IFRA Executive News Service and andydickinson.net
• 10 second preroll
• Few stand-ups or live shots
• Edit for pacing

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Trends

• Journalists and news users can post their own
  video
• Editor approval
• http//ocregister.com/video/submit/
• Audio Comments
• http//www.tmz.com/2007/08/27/britney-targeted-in-
  child-abuse-investigation/

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Good visual stories

• Emotion
• http//www.nppa.org/competitions/quarterly_clip_co
  ntests/TV_regional/2006/winners_of_year/winners/ar
  t_of_compassion.html
• http//www2.mysanantonio.com/specials/ENVideo/inde
  x.cfm?video20070516soldierburialw480h360
• Action
• http//www.nppa.org/competitions/quarterly_clip_co
  ntests/TV_regional/2006/winners_of_year/winners/co
  ntender.html
• http//www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2007/04/27/kabaddi
  /
• Visual interesting
• http//www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/video/archive
  .asp?postID238

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Video Tips

• Short video clips
• Keep shots short
• Chapters
• Not visually interesting or human
• Use tripod
• Professional

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Video Tips

• Sequences
• Cutaways and cut-ins
• Too many medium shots
• Interviews
• Background
• Get shots about what the interviewer is talking
  about
• Poor lighting
• Backlighting

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Audio Tips

• Terrible Audio
• Close, windscreen, wear headphones, mic wires
• Anticipate sounds, conversations, observations
• Use music sparingly
• No scripts
• http//current.com/make/training?sectionediting

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Review

• Framing interviews
• Shooting b-roll

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Pitch video story ideas
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Editing with Final Cut

• Sequences
• Saving
• Capture
• Labeling clips

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Saving Video

• finalcut,finalcut
• System settings settings
• External hard drive or final cut
• Save and delete video when done

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Schedule

• Next week
• Interview and b-roll critique
• Writing for broadcast, storytelling and editing
• Scripts emailed to me that Friday (Feb. 1)
• Serena.Carpenter_at_asu.edu
• Feb. 5
• Script critique. Expected video.
• Video compression
• First completed draft due Feb. 12
• Individual critiques
• Must be compressed and on student server
• Final story due Feb. 19
• Feb. 25 grades and critiques