Videos -- Let's Look At Some Tape!

First up is this one, with nice use of B-roll, captioning and narrating, but the audio is a bit rough. Yeah, I know you're working with basic equipment, but try to do the best you can to capture audible audio. This vid was similar in that regard -- nice editing, but the interview room had a big echo in it.

This next video did a nice job with audio and with the interviews. You got a nice, tight shot of source faces, which allowed you to keep the microphone nearby. And the space you chose had no background noise or distortions.

You could have improved it a bit with some B-roll, like that on the first video. Plus, make sure there's nothing distracting and totally unrelated to the story going on in the background, like in the one shot where someone is messing around with their phone.

I'm not sure if the b-roll in this vid was legal, but hey, it's a first assignment. My main hope was for you to work on shooting and cutting and organizing video, so when the next time around comes up, you're more comfortable with the process and can concentrate more on the product: the journalistic telling of a story.

It's one thing to be doing a story about an airport when there's planes flying in the background; it's another if you're doing a story abut airports and there's a guy picking his nose in the background.

Let's look at some more videos. Like this one. And this one. Let's not overlook this one.