You're welcome. Editorial choices ABSOLUTELY make a difference. It's ALL spin. I've cut countless news pieces, and every single one of them was created from material that a producer logged after someone went out in the field and got the footage. You can tell whatever kind of story you want when you're cutting things up. If you interview 30 people and 15 of them are pro and 15 are con, then you give the editor 7 pro and 1 con to put in the piece, you've chosen what to sell to your audience.
Posting it the way I did was an influence from Rox @ beachwalks.tv. As an editor, I'm all about efficiency and just showing the good parts of what went on. I went to shoot an intro for her beachwalk in Central Park, and when I panned across, the duck I was going to 'land' on wasn't there anymore. :D I told Rox to do it again, when I was sure I could land on the duck's new position, and that prompted a discussion about how she likes to do things in one take. To me, that was a foreign idea, because if it's wrong, it's wrong... do it again. If there's no duck, do it until there IS a duck, and you know you have the footage to make the show you're trying to make. One of the things I came away with from that discussion with was the 'verite' of the un-cut shot. Even if there are boring or not-so-good sections left in the video, there's no denying that This.Is.What.Happened. There's no spin, other than the angle or zoom or focus or white balance of the camera. It's much more believable, because there's no agenda. That's how she looked. That's how she sounded. That's what she said. That's how she smiled. That's how the crowd reacted to what she said. There are no carefully-selected sound bites, pro or con. We'll see what happens @ 6pm, since that speech was this morning around 11:00am. I doubt any of the stations will carry it, because I only saw a couple of professional cameras there. I think one from channel 11, and one from Bronx News 12. Also, as you can tell from the video, there was no mention of Hillary Clinton until people started leaving, so it's likely that the few cameras that were there were out of position. Hopefully, someone will do what the news always does and narrate around a sound bite to make someone look the way they want them to look. That way, you'd be able to see the difference. :) -- Bill C. http://ReelSolid.TV --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for this Bill. She seems so much more personable in your vlog > then she ever does on television news shows like CNN. Is it possible > that editorial choices being made at network effect the timbre of our > presidential candidates? > > -David > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Cammack" <BillCammack@> > wrote: > > > > <http://reelsolid.tv/2007/02/09/reelsolidtv-episode-39-when-hillary- > is-president/> > > > > -- > > Bill C. > > http://ReelSolid.TV > > >
