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5 Good Tips for Producing TV Pieces

Last Monday, I started a reporter internship at SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz, a local (statewide) newsy TV show with a human touch at public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (I’ve been working with them for two years now).

It’S been incredibly hard for me as – what other people would call a “digital native” to actually do online stuff within that week, but that’s another story.

For now, here are some of the best tips I gathered during the last week among authors, editors and camera people that I wanted to record: Read more

2012
02/19
CATEGORY
Practical Journalism
What's the story?
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Carnivor Going Meatless, Day 2

Day two of my little experiement. The camera is still crappy video and it really needs a wide angle.

I’ve added a planning calendar to the equation and I’m starting to collect recipes! I’m hyped about all the recipes I can get, so let me know if you have a got one. Simply post it here or anywhere else and I’ll try it :)

This time, I’ve added a fade-in and fade-out, getting myself back into the basic functions of Adobe Premiere. Also, thanks to Filiz, I have found a Codec that works for YouTube with the Nokia 5800 XPressMusic. It’s the H264!

2011
03/11
CATEGORY
Chiefly Fun: HOWL Magazine
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Masters of Digital Media
Practical Journalism
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How do you improve your video skills? By taking video!

Whatever you plan to do, just start! Right now!

Updated

Video is not your strongest feature? Yeah, mine either so far…

but see the post for more ;)
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2011
03/09
CATEGORY
Field T(r)ips
From the Peanunt Gallery
Masters of Digital Media
Practical Journalism
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What is the Message of YouTube? Or – After the Gutenberg-Universe: The YouTube Galaxy

What is the Message of YouTube?  How will it change TV? And what does Marshall McLuhan have to do with that?

I just wrote an essay for a class in culture and media theory at the University of Mainz going into these questions. I’m deliberating what the YouTube Universe will do to classical media, its models of communication and the power relationships involved. And what the “Message” of YouTube really is.

The essay is German, but I’m sure it’ll be even more fun if you google-translate it ;)

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2010
12/23
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Call Me Master!
Life in the Online World
Masters of Digital Media
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Crowd Funding Is a Piece of the Raft…

… of the raft that will save journalism!

After hard hours of editing and format struggles, the finished work can finally be appreciated online. Incredible what you can do with the most primitive tools! Find my Video on community funded journalism and spot.us

on youtube.

If you are curious to see the whole interview with David, check it out here:

Also take a look at how the story developed, how the question poll turned out, see my recap and what the story board for the video originally used to be.

2009
05/29
CATEGORY
COM 466 - Assignment (UW)
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Featured Today: ME!

Yay, I’m famous! (Oh, I’m so humble ;-) )

Well, maybe not quite yet! But I’m working on it! Meanwhile, check out this interview with me. FIUTS is the Foundation of International Understanding at the University of Washington. I have volunteered there on many projects to foster international understanding. I’ve also taken pictures for them and just finished editing this video teaser for an upcoming event.I will also do a little video of the event itself.

And right now, I’m on the non-profit’s front page!

In the interview I talk about being an international student, Germany and my travel to Mexico. There’s also a number of random Q&As. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

2009
05/13
CATEGORY
From the Peanunt Gallery
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Low Effort, Low Quality, Low Value? – Video Columns and the Future of News

Do you really need more to make a good video column? YES! Good content! (photo Uwe Hermann CC licence)

Do you really need more to make a good video column? YES! Good content! (photo Uwe Hermann CC licence)

Mark Briggs compares the different make-up of video features by New York Times tech columnist David Pogue and Walter Mossberg’s video column for the Wall Street Journal. While the NYT version is highly polished, Mossberg’s column is rather… basic. Will the future of news be dominated by bad quality?

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2009
05/12
CATEGORY
COM 466 - Assignment (UW)
From the Peanunt Gallery
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Fooling the Audience – Susan Boyle and the Art of Storytelling

Gary Stein provides a close analysis of the video showing Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent, causing quite a discussion about it. Approaching the piece from a journalistic point of view, I have asked myself if the video as it is edited could work as a piece of “news” considering the comments on Stein’s analysis.

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2009
05/12
CATEGORY
COM 466 - Assignment (UW)
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Anticipating Video Production

It is never too early to learn about compelling video producitons!
Although the COM466 class has not yet begun to work with video, I wanted to share these ten tips from Eric Maierson.

Details are important on set, but the tone of a movie is set in the editing room ©pc britz

Details are important on set, but the tone of a movie is set in the editing room. ©pc britz


Maierson is producer at Media Storm, a Multi-Media production company created by Brian Storm and based in New York (Dan Lamont had mentioned it in his talk if you remember).

One idea I found particularly compelling: See a sequence of pictures as paragraphs between great ideas!

2009
05/04
CATEGORY
From the Peanunt Gallery
photography
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I am Paul-Christian Britz aka @pcbritz, an aspiring German journalist with a degree in American Studies, Political Science and Film Studies. I am currently traveling the world and am looking for a journalistic traineeship in 2013.

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