UF Army ROTC Video

Posted: July 03, 2008

I helped an Alligator Writer, Kristin Huff, edit her first video yesterday. Kristin was the first brave reporter to offer up a video after managing editor of online media Ken Schwenke offered up his Flip video camera for the less-experienced videographers looking for something new to try.

She did a good job of keeping the camera steady and getting a story out of the interview. She asked the right questions and got some good shots.

Overall I give her an A+ for her first effort.

I told her for next time she needed to consider a few things:

  • A wider variety of shots -- especially some good, wide, establishing shots
  • More b-roll
  • Work on having the camera steady before she starts shooting because she ended up having a little less video than she thought because the beginning of every video was too shaky.

Check out the video on the Alligator's multimedia page.

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