Why journalists now need to be multiplatform reporters, able to shoot video as well as write stories for the web. This slide presentation goes over the basics of videography, shots required, white balance, and framing of interviews

1. Why be a TV journalist?
The free wardrobe
allowance?
The hair and
makeup
The big bucks?
It’s fun?

2. TV News
Are you the next Lloyd Robertson
or Dwight Drummond? Is ESPN
calling you? Move over Ben
Mulroney!

3. Answer:
All of the above,
except perhaps the
big bucks.

4. You will impact the world…
With your TV
images and TV
stories…just think of
Haiti…

5. Rule #1
Always use a tripod --if possible

6. Rule #2
Always WHITE BALANCE when
changing locations
the camera needs to reset its white
colour in different light conditions
(daylight, indoor light etc)

7. White Balance
BAD-blue indoor
Good-white balanced

8. Videography Lesson
Kinds of shots you need to get for a TV
package report/story:

9. What to shoot
 Wide shot/establishing shots

11. Wide/Establishing Shots
Tells the viewer “Where are you?”
Locates the action for a viewer
Shoot about 8-15 secs each

14. Medium Shots
More interesting.
Viewer can detect some specific activity
but still not 100% sure what is
happening--this needs your narration to
help explain it better.
Shots last approx 15 sec each

16. Close ups
Even more interesting visually. You now
care about the person/thing being
shown.
Usually introduces an SOT(sound
byte/excerpt of interview)

18. Extreme Close up
Used to show extreme emotion.
Not used in every story but good to
shoot these just in case you need it later
for editing purposes.

20. cutaways
Related to the story but not main action.
Often used as reaction shots to action.
Medium shots and close ups

21. Use varied shot angles
Make your shots visually interesting

22. Use lines to make it
interesting

23. Subjective shots

24. Point of View

25. People are most interesting
Medium and close up shots with people
are engaging for viewers

27. Interviews (SOTs)

28. Keep the camera behind you/to the side, and at eye level with
guest

29. In interviews
the reporter IS NOT on camera
We use an interviewee’s ANSWERS
only

30. SOT/Interviews FRAMING

31. How to frame them:
eyes at top third of screen

32. Framing of the face
Bad Good

33. Stand Up by Reporter

34. In a stand up…
The reporter gives forward-looking
information, pr summarizes the story,
then does a sign off:
“George Hoff, Observer TV News,
Toronto.”

35. Cautious use of these
Pan left/right -- panoramic --horizontal
Tilt up/down --vertical
Zoom in/out
these shots last a long time --boring to
the viewer -- always shoot some!

36. Some things to know about
your cameras
1) News Sdhc cards need
formatting
2) How to use the tripod
3) How to white balance
4) How to check the mic is
working

37. FORMAT YOUR SDHC cards
when you first put them into
the cameras
Menu
Memory ope
Initialize
Initialization methods
Yes
Okay
Make sure you don’t erase anything important.

38. Put the sd card in first, THEN
attach camera to tripod.…

39. White balance -- On the Canon FS 10s
We want to do it manually -- custom. Press
the FUNCTION key then
Use joystick to select P, then down to AWB. .
Over to Icon on far right that looks like a
bowtie with a ball on top.
Zoom in onto a white surface ‘till it fills the
whole screen. Press SET. When it stops
flashing, it is white balanced. Press
FUNCTION to save the Setting.