Adam Westbrook is a radio journalists who has been experimenting with video. He has a great post on his blog about how tricky juggling the needs of different mediums can be and, as the picture above proves, he wasn’t just trying this out at the local council meeting.
He has a nice set of tips on how journalists should approach a multimedia story:
with a good knowledge of each medium
with a plan of what the final products will be
with a variety of treatments: do some stories in just video, do others in just audio, rather than repeating the same content in different mediums
with a good bag which can carry all your equipment, and a notebook for logging everything and planning the final product
with a small digital camera- take a photo of everyone you interview in audio, for audio slide shows
smaller and lighter is better
when you arrive somewhere new, think over your video first of all, as getting the right shots is more complicated than getting the right audio or stills
and don’t just think in terms of audio, video or still images..what about interactive timelines, potted histories and discussion boards? If your final platform is online then all these are options you can bear in mind.
The rest of Adam’s blog is worth checkingout too.
