I want to keep my words brief and to the point. This video is one of the finest pieces of video journalism I have seen in a long time. The trite content produced these days has left me cynical and thinking there wasn’t anything being produced of high quality that told a true human story. [...]
According to broadcastingcable.com, Hearst Television has signed a deal with JVC to utilize the GY-HM100 ProHD camcorder as the foundation for their rolling out their move to the backpacker journalist concept. I say it’s about time.
SoloVJ.com is an advocacy platform for the SoloVJ/Backpack Journalist Paradigm and as such, I’m constantly looking for new information on this brave new world of video journalism that ascribes to less is more. Bruce Jones posted this video on his blog about the Backpack Journalism Project Bill Gentile is teaching at American University. I [...]
In my never ending search for quality video content, I discovered this 1st Place Documentary Video winner in the NPPA Best Of Photojournalism contest for 2010 entitled “Leveling Appalachia – The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining” Although not completely done in the solovj paradigm, the credits do show that the vast majority of the content was [...]
I’ve been voraciously consuming Adam Westbrook’s blog postings lately and this came in over the weekend and thought I would take liberties and apply it to the solovj paradigm. Adam raises a very important question in this video:
