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The BBC Guide to Good Shooting

By Michael Becker | Published: May 1, 2009
It’s been a busy Friday, so unfor­tu­nately only one update today. I was able to to go through one of the BBC’s excel­lent tutorial/training courses online, the “Guide to Good Shooting.” I rec­om­mend the course because it pro­vides inter­ac­tive exer­cises to help you fig­ure out some of the specifics of set­ting up good video shots [...]
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Telling stories with sound

By Michael Becker | Published: April 27, 2009
There’s plenty to be learned about sto­ry­telling in just audio — like NPR does, and I think that there are some lessons there that we can import into our video pro­duc­tion tech­niques. (Who knows, we could also look into pro­duc­ing audio-only con­tent or pod­casts, so these tech­niques might be valuable.) These lessons once again come [...]
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A five-step program

By Michael Becker | Published: April 27, 2009
One of the big things I’ve done so far is to look into News University courses, offered (mostly) for free from Poynter. I’ve com­pleted one of the courses, “Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling,” by Jane Stevens.This course is mostly focused on the kind of multi-media sto­ries that revolve around a Web page — sort of [...]
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