DISQUS

Megan Taylor: Web Journalist: How do I edit video?

  • Bryan Murley · 2 years ago
    You have the right idea. I wouldn't just watch online video though. I'd also watch good documentary video, and listen to This American Life, for instance. They now have a TV show. I wonder what it's going to be like, since I don't subscribe to Showtime.
  • Ryan · 2 years ago
    Basic rules to learn in order to break them later:

    :::Shoot multiple angles and sizes -- close up from one side, wide from another, mediums for everywhere, lots of details.

    :::Break up the main action with the details.

    :::Keep the audio of the main action running.

    :::Think of illustrating a scene, as if it were "moving pictures" and not "television."

    :::Storytelling doesn't have to hit the viewer over the head.