Video blogging the convention
Is video blogging the next big thing?
While most bloggers are content posting text and a few poor-quality photos, Steve Garfield has been video blogging the convention.
Garfield tells CyberJournalist.net why:
Video Blogging gives the viewer more information than a text blog. I've been experimenting with video blogging since the first of the year and thought that the DNC would be a great week to go out and practice some Citizen Journalism.For giving the reader/viewer a sense of what happened, the video post is much more effective.
People are really excited about seeing things that the major media outlets are not showing.
Take for example the Wes Clark speech. I was there and felt the hall erupt with enthusiasm after he spoke about the flag. Digby had linked to the Salon article, which I could only read a portion of since it required a subscription, which told you about what happened, but my video actually showed the excitement and I think it really comes through.
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1 comments about 'Video blogging the convention'A few years ago I was having coffee with a producer from CBS News and suggested to her it was now possible to send reporters into the field with a notebook computer loaded w/Final Cut Pro, a digital video camera and a mic.
They could file complete reports for broadcast.
She found this disturbing, since it can cut out producers from the edit process, although NY could always recut the footage and lay in a new v/o.
All of this applies to blogs, provided they can afford the bandwidth. The missing ingredients are content & talent. As a longtime reader of some of the established blogs that had press credentials at the Dem convention, I was largely disappointed by their posts. Much too much about being thrilled to be there, the physical problems in moving around, inadequate facilities, etc.
Hundreds of delegates, many of them county chairmen and office holders, including congressmen, and I didn't see a single interview on the blogs. They were still locked in their meta-media mode, and the convention hall is a lousy environment for that kind of work.
All respects to Garfield, but the audience response (& non-response in the case of Lieberman's speech) did come through in the nets" broadcasts, since they cut to audience shots on every applause line. But they weren't offering much in the way of delegate interviews either.
It seems everyone--established press & bloggers--agreed that the story was entirely about the speeches. Nobody seemed at all interested in the narrow Republican majorities in the House & Senate, except for Obama's lock on the IL Senate seat. And that wouldn't have been a story if he hadn't delivered that killer keynote.
Posted by social democrat at July 30, 2004 1:28 PM
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