Chapter 5Composing Visual Proof on Smartphones
Ivo Burum
Summary
Multimedia or mojo storytelling creates raw user-generated content (UGC) for news outlets; and feature-type user-generated stories (UGS) for online, paywall and web TV formats. Whether it’s creating UGC or UGS, mojos need to know how to capture and compose powerful images quickly. To do this mojos need to know which images will tell their story best. In this chapter we introduce a few basic concepts and techniques for recording visual media in the field. I discuss how to work on location to best cover an event and I introduce the concept of shooting to edit on a mobile.
In the early 1990s I began experimenting with self-shot television formats for television. More complex to shoot ...
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