Converge

I’ve already noted some of our early video work, mainly using the Flip cam. One of our reporters, Gabe Bullard, has some professional experience with video, and has been training the news team to take effective videos.

None of these examples is perfect (although each is better than what I could do) but I want to share them so you can see ways we’re playing with the medium. We’ve been experimenting in the following ways:

• - what kind of video content can enhance a particular story we’re doing
• - how to juggle the responsibility of collecting good audio, conducting a good interview, along with handling a camera
• - workflow: the extra time required to edit and produce video; when overlaying the professional audio track on the video is worth the extra time, etc.

Our approach has been simple: give it a shot, see what happens, learn what works or what doesn’t, go out and try it again. So far, the reporters seem enthusiastic about being able to add another dimension to their reporting.