week 9 – Video Journalists and Mobile Journalists
‘Tools of the trade’. Image taken from: http://www.neighborhood-media.com/mojo.gif
I really enjoyed reading “Five videoblogs that do it right” (by Jennifer Woodard Maderazo) and then I headed to these sites to see what the videoblogs were all about.
When I think of video blogs, I instantly think of websites like YouTube, which has an endless supply of videos to watch.
From my experience, some of the videos were not of the highest standard or the content interesting.
Therefore, when I opened Alive in Baghdad, I spent quite some time here getting to hear people’s stories about how the Iraq war is affecting them.
We all hear about the costs of war but not a lot of coverage is given to the Iraqi citizens – people just like you and me except they don’t know if they will wake up in the morning.
It was a revelation and a great use of a Vlog.
The other four sites (MobuzzTV, Ask a Ninja, Wine Library TV, Rocketboom) were also interesting, but did not hold my attention like Alive in Baghdad.
Maybe that was due to me always wanting to hear both sides of a story and this website allowed that to occur.
The equipment required to produce a Vlog has streamlined from what television studios require without losing on quality viewing.
Journalists can travel with high pixel mobile phones or smaller digital cameras to capture stories.
There will always be the need for TV news, but Vlogs are here to stay
