Thursday, November 3, 2011

Frank Alli: Using Video Clips in a Blog Post

We spoke to veteran TV news journalist Frank Alli about how to incorporate video in an online news story.

He gave us a few pointers:




1. "Understand what your story is." Get to know the subject so you can map out potential shots.
2. "Sound bites first." Get your talking heads on camera.
3. "3, 4 minutes -- four minutes is kind of long."



Sound: Vicky speaks about using audio clips, like this one:

Vicky UCLA by dennisjromero

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