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Why video storytelling?
- By: ASNE staff
- On: 09/19/2014 11:41:07
- In: Convention
By Kaytee Lorentzen
Ball State University APME-ASNE Convention Coverage Team
Video storytelling gives readers an experience they're not used to getting, The New York Times videographer A.J. Chavar told editors Tuesday.
Video storytelling gives readers an experience they're not used to getting, The New York Times videographer A.J. Chavar told editors Tuesday.
Chavar explained passion leads to great stories. Throughout the presentation, he showed videos that demonstrated the importance of video storytelling.
He emphasized taking the time to create good video and trusting reporters to have passion for the story.
“You get what you put in,” Chavar said.
He explained that video can help with issues that news outlets have. “Video can make your audience experience things in a way that photo can't," he said. "It
transports people into the story.”
He listed 10 steps into making video "amazing."
1. Video is a natural evolution for newspapers.
2. Want to be more creative? Set rules.
3. Video doesn't mean one thing.
4. Not everything is a video.
5. Listen to your reporters.
6. Words are an invaluable asset to video.
7, Find your audience.
8, Don't pander.
9. Video takes time.
10. No one knows the future. Don't pretend to.