1What is online journalism? - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY

The core journalism 59
Moving pictures
You are more likely to offer still pictures than video on your site
at the current time (2001). Downloading video is still not a userfriendly
experience and unless you are an established broadcaster,
the production quality you could bring to any home grown video
is questionable, especially when viewed on the relatively low
resolution of a PC monitor.
But while we’re about it, let’s offer some basic advice to avoid
the ‘video nasties’.
1 Carefully consider your subject and the surrounding area and
try to frame each shot sequence.
2 Provide a focal point for each shot.
3 If you film someone and he or she is looking into the shot (i.e.
on the right-hand side of frame, but looking towards the
middle), make sure the subject stays in that position for the
whole of the sequence/interview.
4 Avoid excessive zooming.
5 Avoid hand-held filming unless necessary. Invest in a tripod.
6 Make sure you have all the shots you need to provide a logical
visual sequence when you edit them together. As well as your
main interviews and sequences, you may require ‘establishing’
shots (e.g. the outside of a building where an interview is about
to take place), ‘cutaways’ (general shots used to hide the joins
between edits where otherwise the picture would jump from the
end of one sequence to the start of another) and the dreaded
‘noddies’ (shots of interviewer nodding and maybe asking
questions, recorded after the interview; these are used to mask
edits in the interview or avoid questions being asked offcamera).
7 Make sure your audio is audible.
8 Whenever you can, use additional lighting.
Having looked in detail at how to collect news and information, we
will now turn our attention to the third stage of the core
journalistic process – the selection of material, prior to
presentation.