Video: Report from BFBS - How iPhone Video Could Change TV News

Posted February 07, 2017
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This week we are training journalists at BFBS on iPhone video production. Smartphones have disrupted the ways that many industries do business, but they have affected video, and video news particularly, substancially. What used to require a whole crew and thousands of dollars woroth of equipment can now be done with just a smartphone. Take a look at this report on how iPhones can change TV news.

 


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