Category Archives: video

What Makes A Good Video Story

By Michael Becker | Published: February 20, 2010
We are always looking for opportunities to add multimedia features to our stories, and the most popular kind of feature we can add is video. Eventually, it would be great if the reporters would pitch video ideas on their own initiative. To this end, here’s a link to a post on Net Worked, What Makes A [...]
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A walk in snowshoes

By Michael Becker | Published: February 1, 2010
via blip.tv Our latest Chronicle video, shot by Michael Gibney, edited by me. Posted via web from Becker’s Online Journal
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In case you didn’t see it…

By Michael Becker | Published: January 29, 2010
Here’s our latest Chronicle video, shot by Dan Person, edited by me.
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Using music in multimedia pieces

By Michael Becker | Published: December 20, 2009
Eric Maierson at MediaStorm offers some fantastic tips for using music in multimedia stories — such as video and audio. The gist is this: Make sure you the music you choose is good. Otherwise, don’t use it. Then, learn to cut and shape the music to fit with your piece so that it becomes more [...]
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New e-book offers multimedia journalism tips

By Michael Becker | Published: October 27, 2009
Multimedia journalist Adam Westbrook has published his e-book, “6×6: Advice for Multimedia Journalists,” on his blog. I’d advise anyone interested in doing multimedia journalism (specifically video) to go download a copy. It’s free, after all.
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Save early and save often

By Michael Becker | Published: October 23, 2009
Lesson learned: If a program offers you the opportunity to autosave your work for you, if only you’d take the briefest of breaks to first save your work and give it a file name, do it. Don’t, as I did, work for four hours on a video project, thinking that Final Cut Pro is saving [...]
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