Comments on: Cyberpresse is hit-and-miss for video http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/04/10/cyberpresse-videos/ Can you think of a better name? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:19:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eric Gagne http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/04/10/cyberpresse-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-72178 Eric Gagne Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:55:05 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=4996#comment-72178 I will always remember a lecture on how to make a good TV or video report given by Paul-Andre Comeau, former Radio-Canada's TV reporter, in a TV journalism (what else ???) course. He explained that the first step was to edit the images, and then, record the SHORT text that will support these images. Since one image is worth a thousand words, you are not supposed to overload your report with too many words? In a video report, the visual should come before the writing. Seems pretty stupid, but is often forgotten by some TV reporters... and newspaper ones. I will always remember a lecture on how to make a good TV or video report given by Paul-Andre Comeau, former Radio-Canada's TV reporter, in a TV journalism (what else ???) course.

He explained that the first step was to edit the images, and then, record the SHORT text that will support these images. Since one image is worth a thousand words, you are not supposed to overload your report with too many words? In a video report, the visual should come before the writing. Seems pretty stupid, but is often forgotten by some TV reporters... and newspaper ones.

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