Sites such as BBC.co.uk, Guardian on-line, The Times.com are multimedia sites. They have text. They have video clips. They have audio. They have still photographs. They have interactive graphics. They appear to fit the bill (leaving aside the structural and political aspects of each institution). But the actual stories on these sites are often linear and produced in either text or video or audio to stand alone. The text is often augmented with photos, as it would be in a newspaper or magazine. The video is usually the same version that appears on television. The audio is usually the same version heard on the radio. (See BBC.co.uk any day of the week) Rarely are video, text, still photos, audio and graphics integrated into the same story. Usually, they are stand-alone stories, each produced for a different media about the same subject then formed into multimedia packages. There is a difference between using digital technology to tell stories and digital story telling.
Winner of the Concentra 2008 Award for outstanding videojournalism is…….
The award for ‘breaking news’ Tony Birtley for Myanmar
The awad for outstanding jounrlism Idar Krogstadt for The Nightwatch
runer up – Travis Fox. Crises in Darfur.
At the conclusion of proceedings on day 1 of DNA is the Concentra Awards for Video Journalism. Michael Rosenbloom presents awards in a range of categories after a brief montage of MTV style ‘wobbly’ cam. Ten jurors from the ‘worldwide media’ including the president of the jurors – Michael Rosenbloom.
A more fiesty session with Rosenbloom and Loughrey at seemingly opposite ends of the debate over VJ’s versus trad crews.
It raises the question – how much is the politics of the organisation you’re working for stopping you going forward? No real conclusion from the panel but some consensus that VJ’s might get stories trad crews can’t – hardly revelatory. Rosenbloom wrpas the session with a pretty market lead statement that VJ’s are coming whether you like it or not. Technolgy and economics dictate it.
Arrived in Brussels last night quite late. much of it was shut but, hey – found a little bar and started to reflect on what the next couple of days could be about.
Michael Rosenbloom opens the session with the zest of an old time evangelist – preaching to the choir judging by the audience reaction.
So far – standard stuff – maybe they’re further down the line at SxSW in Texas!
