Rise of Stand-Alone Video Journalism

JD Lasica links to an interview from Lost Remote talking about the rise of stand-alone video journalists.

LOST REMOTE: What is a video journalist?
ROSENBLUM: A Videojournalist is a television reporter who works alone with a small digital camera and laptop edit the way a print journalist works with a pad and pencil or a laptop. This is about reporting and authorship. As anyone can pick up a pencil and paper and try to write (or a typewriter or a wordprocessor), so we also encourage anyone with the urge and a vision to pick up a camera and an edit system and see that they can make. This is, after all, how most writers get started. TV should be the same.

The 13 interviews I did at the Personal Democracy Forum would probably qualify as VJing.

The rest of the 45 interviews would not qualify as VJing since my wife was with me serving as the cinematographer. I will say that is it a lot easier and better to conduct interviews with a dedicated cinematographer. I definitely prefer looking interview subjects directly in the eye, and that's really hard to do when my eyes are glued to the pop-out viewfinder trying to keep the proper framing. I guess a tripod would help, but that's pretty darn heavy to lug around a tripod for 13 hours.

I've loaded in the 2-hours of footage, and I'm starting to cut a short piece together that will talk about how new media technologies are revolutionizing the press, politics and culture.

I also have to clean up the site a bit more.