Chapter 19 - Long-form video journalism, audio and video news bulletins and magazine programmes

Chapter 19 web version

In the book version of this chapter we will cover:

  • Long-form video journalism
  • How to compile, edit and present a video news bulletin
  • How to compile, edit and present a longer, magazine style programme.

At the end of the chapter is a range of exercises and projects to enable you to practise what you have learned.

In the online version of this chapter you will find:

  • Links to all the examples discussed here
  • Video and other further tuition in key areas
  • Additional resources
  • Essential updates to tuition in the book.

Always have the book version of Multimedia Journalism to hand while you use this website – the off- and on-line versions are designed to work together.

19C1 Long-form video journalism

Vice online magazine www.vice.com/

Vice YouTube channels www.youtube.com/user/vice

Watch Vice's Isis videos www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o7ELT6LKyJFKawB6gUsZSf7

A 20 minute documentary about a bunch of jewel thieves called the Pink Panthers.

www.vice.com/en_uk/the-vice-report/europes-most-notorious-jewel-thieves-full-length-153

A portrait of London street-biker culture www.vice.com/en_uk/rule-britannia/london-bikelife-427

How does vice make long-form video journalism pay?

www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-vice-became-a-video-success-story/s2/a550133/

and

http://company.vice.com/en_us/network

How Vice links out from its videos to text and other content

book icon Find a discussion around the following examples

The news bulletin is here, grabbed at the point when a story on Yemen is featured

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    The text report is here

    https://news.vice.com/article/what-do-the-protesting-houthis-really-want-in-yemen

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    The long-form video documentary is here

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ggen-595Ng

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      There are also links to in-depth text-based material within that documentary, including this:

      https://news.vice.com/article/a-justice-department-memo-provides-the-cias-legal-justification-to-kill-a-us-citizen

      said to be a CIA memo providing the legal justification for killing a US citizen.

      How to add links into your YouTube videos

      Find out at this link: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/92710?hl=en

      Here's a summary of what YouTube says you should do.

      Create an annotation

      • Go to your channel Video Manager
      • Next to the video you wish to edit, click the down arrow to the right of the Edit button and select Annotations
      • Click the Add annotation button on the right
      • Click Publish when you've finished creating your annotations.

      Where annotations do (and don't) show up

      • Annotations appear on standard YouTube players and embedded players
      • Annotations do not appear on custom YouTube chromeless players, or on mobile, tablet and TV devices.

      News bulletins from brands

      Manchester United

      The football club creates a daily bulletin of short club-news items

      www.manutd.com/en/unitedtodayvideo

      Gathering material for video bulletins

      Lloyds List's On The Radar www.lloydslist.com/ll/topic/ontheradar/

      Scripting the bulletin

      A BBC guide to scripting a bulletin http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/6180944.stm

      19C2 Video bulletins

      Vice news bulletin example featured in the book version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH3BQPrxje8

      The accompanying text report: https://news.vice.com/article/what-do-the-protesting-houthis-really-want-in-yemen

      The accompanying long-form text-based documentary: https://news.vice.com/article/a-justice-department-memo-provides-the-cias-legal-justification-to-kill-a-us-citizen

      Further links to Vice content

      Vice news channel news channel: https://news.vice.com/

      Vice video www.vice.com/en_au/videos

      How to add annotations to your YouTube videos: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/92710?hl=en

      19C3 Selecting material for a bulletin

      BBC guides to scripting and compiling news bulletins

      There is much tuition linked to from this overview page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/resources_for_teachers/9541487.stm

      19C4 Presenting the bulletin

      Voice coaching: Ann S Utterback

      http://newslab.org/articles/speakclearly.htm

      Further voice coaching resources

      More from Ann Utterback http://onlinevoicecoaching.com/

      Breathing for broadcast

      http://youtu.be/wj6ViQo3YAs

        Presenting tips from the BBC's voice coach http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/7062241.stm

        Autocue apps

        For iPad www.autocue.com/ipad-teleprompter

        A free online tele-prompter www.cueprompter.com/

        How to make your own teleprompter http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/resources_for_teachers/9625257.stm

        19C5 Creating a magazine-style video programme

        The video we discuss in the book:

        http://youtu.be/VhMRSwmW1c4

          Further resources on how print publishers are using video

          How four publishers – Dennis Publishing, Future, IPC and Vice – have moved beyond magazines and are now producing videos for their existing audiences and to attract new ones: www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-magazine-publishers-are-finding-success-in-online-video/s2/a552656/

          How the NME uses video, Channel at:  www.youtube.com/user/NMETV

          An example: Song stories featuring Johnny Marr http://youtu.be/DX0fX47rQMc