Telling Stories Digitally: a video journalism workshop

Telling stories digitally Composing stories with video [and other platforms] By S.P. Sullivan spsullivanmedia.com

The medium doesn’t matter ,[object Object],[object Object]

The first person you should interview is yourself ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The first person you should interview is yourself ,[object Object],Students take workshop Chancellor cuts budget President addresses economy You’ll elaborate on the story when you start composing it, but not until after you’ve figured out what it’s about. If you can’t reduce it to three words , [eg. This story is about more than that, man. It’s about love and death and the human condition ], then it will probably suck .

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The first person you should interview is yourself ,[object Object],[object Object]

The second person you should interview is someone else. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The second person you should interview is someone else. ,[object Object],[object Object]

But sometimes broad is good. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

And sometime specific is necessary ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Telling stories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Learn from others ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Learn from others [especially those smarter than you] ,[object Object],[object Object]

Composition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Your lede ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Your lede ,[object Object],[object Object]

Start with good material ,[object Object],[object Object]

Some technical stuff ,[object Object],[object Object]

Some technical stuff ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Shoot a crapload of footage ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Don’t show me dead stuff ,[object Object],[object Object]

Get multiple perspectives ,[object Object],When you change angles, you give a new perspective on something your audience may have seen a hundred times before.

Get multiple perspectives ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Putting material to work ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Check your work ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Ask for help ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Thanks ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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