Solo Video Journalist

Musings and advocacy of the Solo Video Journalist Paradigm. Emphasis on web video journalism, developing compact shooting equipment, editing, techniques, creative vision while remaining true to the journalism perspective.

Video: Cancer Care

By Cliff Etzel • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Multimedia

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Michael Rosenblum posted this on his blog.  Pretty straight forward.

Detractors deride his solo vj training as being too little.  His training techniques produces quality that is supposedly less than professional - according to the detractors.

Yet, only three weeks after training the Newark Star Ledger’s Photographer’s in his VJ boot camp, the quality of content already being produced meets and in many instances, exceeds the content being produced by corporate network news media shooters.

For this video story, newly trained solo vj John O’Boyle of the Newark Star Ledger shot it, wrote it, voiced it, produced it, and edited it - alone.

And has proven my perspective on the solo vj paradigm - less IS more.


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Cliff Etzel is a regional award winning photojournalist from the Pacific Northwest who has been a visual content creator since 15 years of age. In his past still work, he specialized in photo documentary and slice of life stories. Since discovering the new paradigm of self contained video journalism, he now focus his energies in the Solo VJ paradigm with an emphasis on people-based stories, environmental, social justice, travel and documentary work through his company, bluprojekt
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