Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Writing for a visual medium such as television or the Internet is such a different experience for a journalist than any other type of writing, say newspaper or magazine. For a journalist you have to keep your audience engaged in your story, keep them interested and wanting more and you go about that differently if you are writing for a visual medium, Your story and your video coexist to tell your story. Every thing you do leads your audience from clip to clip to help your audience understand what video you are showing them and why. Your audience can be taken to the scene of the accident or to the ball game or to the big Forth of July celebration, as long as you take them there. It is a medium that is so much simpler for an audience to understand, but so much more complicated and easily corrupted by a journalist that we find ourselves as young journalist at a crossroads where we must take the not so straight and narrow path and learn to use the medium in the correct and proper fashion.

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