Video Story Forms - an overview
From NAA video survey
Online news video can be classified into several forms, from basic, single-shot interviews to full-blown documentary-style features. Angela Grant, multimedia journalist for the San Antonio Express-News, describes these in the March 2008 issue of Quill magazine:
Video illustration : “The simplest type is just one or two shots totaling 30 seconds or less that complements or illustrates a text story.... It enhances the print story by showing something that is not as effectively described in print as by video.” Appropriate uses for a video illustration include scenes of car accidents, house fires, and to show emotional testimony in court or in controversial public meetings.
Deadline video package : “This is a stand-alone video that can run with a text story, but does not rely on it for context and meaning….[It includes] source interviews and can also feature a reporter-written and recorded voiceover.” This format is usually produced on deadline and runs less than two minutes.
Documentary video : This story form “usually runs in multiple videos that can be as long as five minutes each or even longer. [It] gives the viewer an in-depth look at a topic or at the lives of the subjects. An accompanying print story is unnecessary, but often documentary video is packaged with text....”
Online news video can be classified into several forms, from basic, single-shot interviews to full-blown documentary-style features. Angela Grant, multimedia journalist for the San Antonio Express-News, describes these in the March 2008 issue of Quill magazine:
Video illustration : “The simplest type is just one or two shots totaling 30 seconds or less that complements or illustrates a text story.... It enhances the print story by showing something that is not as effectively described in print as by video.” Appropriate uses for a video illustration include scenes of car accidents, house fires, and to show emotional testimony in court or in controversial public meetings.
Deadline video package : “This is a stand-alone video that can run with a text story, but does not rely on it for context and meaning….[It includes] source interviews and can also feature a reporter-written and recorded voiceover.” This format is usually produced on deadline and runs less than two minutes.
Documentary video : This story form “usually runs in multiple videos that can be as long as five minutes each or even longer. [It] gives the viewer an in-depth look at a topic or at the lives of the subjects. An accompanying print story is unnecessary, but often documentary video is packaged with text....”
NAA Web Video Resources
- Making a 'Good' Online Video: Expert Advice
- Spending Money: A Guide to Purchasing Cameras and Peripherals
- Editing, Publishing and Hosting: Cutting It Down and Putting It Up
- Live from the Scene: Newspaper Web Sites Take on Television
- Making Money: Pre-Roll, Post-Roll and the Ads In Between
- Live from the Newsroom: Set Building 101
- Promoting Online Video
Case studies
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2008-Online-Video-Survey-2.pdf, 1021 KB
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