MOJO: The Mobile Journalism Handbook

Chapter 12File Delivery and Phone Management

Stephen Quinn

Summary

Videos that mojos create tend to be very large files. This chapter covers the routines and practices needed to send these files successfully from the field. It also shows how to maintain your iPhone or iPad so your device does not become clogged with too many large digital files because we cannot shoot video if the device’s memory is full.

It used to be said in California that one could never be too thin or too rich. For mojos we need to add a phrase to this epigram: “Too thin or too rich, or have too much memory on your mobile phone or tablet.” A skill that mojos need to embrace when using their iPhone for “full mojo” is file management. Shooting video in the field generates ...