Video Journalism for the Web

As more newspapers and broadcast news outlets transition online, reporters and photojournalists are being asked to provide more and more video for their stories. This book teaches students and professional journalists how to shoot better video and tell better stories on the web. Creating multimedia video journalism requires more than simply adapting traditional broadcast journalism techniques, so Kurt Lancaster provides students with a strong understanding of cinematic storytelling and documentary production in order to make their videos stand out. This book introduces students to all of the basic skills and techniques of good video journalism and documentary storytelling, from shots and camera movements to sound and editing. Shooting exercises throughout the book ask students to put these techniques into practice. Case studies and interviews with multimedia video journalists also offer real-world perspectives on a career in news video.

Author Biography

Kurt Lancaster is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University, where he teaches courses on documentary multimedia production, scriptwriting, and production techniques. He has shot documentaries that have screened nationally and internationally. He has also consulted The Christian Science Monitor, training some of their print journalists in video journalism, as well as shooting and editing documentary journalism pieces. He writes for the DocumentaryTech blog (http://documentarytech.com). He is author of several books including DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video and Building a Home Movie Studio and Getting Your Films Online.