EmailNiki Griswold is an MMJ with Spectrum News 1 in Texas.
Last week she took one of our week long virtual video storytelling bootcamps and shot a lovely story about two professional ballet dancers in Austin who are coping with the Covid lockdown.
They are continuing to dance, but in their small apartment - with their dog.
The story is great, as are the visuals - all shot with an iPhone, as usual.
Take a look at the pointing on toes!
BUT - small differences in editing and pacing can make an enormous difference in the story.
Take a look at the two versions here.
In the first, the narrative is breathless and unrelenting - a problem we often find in local TV news stories. It's the Breaking News! mentality.
Now take a look at the recut.
Notice how she lets the story breathe.
So much better.
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No News Today — or tomorrow for that matter.
March 26, 2024
For most of human history, people lived in a world without news. The concept simply did not exist. The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us radio, then TV and now the web. Now, it seems, we are headed back to a world without news. Not because the technology is not there, but rather because, increasingly, people are no longer interested in news, at least in the way it is packaged now.
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When television was invented in the 1930s, no one knew what TV news was supposed to look like. The medium had never existed before, and so, like Gutenberg half a millennium, prior, the first creators of TV news had to fall back on a medium with which they were familiar, and that was radio.
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