http://www.david-campbell.org Photography, Multimedia, Politics Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:21:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Photography, Multimedia, Politics David Campbell no Photography, Multimedia, Politics http://www.david-campbell.org/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.david-campbell.org http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/05/23/the-new-media-landscape-1-contours-of-change/ http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/05/23/the-new-media-landscape-1-contours-of-change/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 14:59:12 +0000 davidc7 http://www.david-campbell.org/?p=2084 http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/05/23/the-new-media-landscape-1-contours-of-change/feed/ 5 http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/03/30/paying-for-photojournalism-review-nyt-pay-wall/ http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/03/30/paying-for-photojournalism-review-nyt-pay-wall/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:20:46 +0000 davidc7 http://www.david-campbell.org/?p=1959 http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/03/30/paying-for-photojournalism-review-nyt-pay-wall/feed/ 20 http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/03/17/covering-japans-disaster-videojournalists-reflections/ http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/03/17/covering-japans-disaster-videojournalists-reflections/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:50:37 +0000 davidc7 http://www.david-campbell.org/?p=1887 http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/03/17/covering-japans-disaster-videojournalists-reflections/feed/ 2 Dan Chung,Japan,journalism,photojournalism,The Guardian,video Dan Chung spent four days covering the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Based in Beijing as the Guardian's videojournalist, Dan runs the DSLR Newshooter blog and is the video tutor for the MA in International Multimedia Journalism I contribute to. Dan Chung spent four days covering the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Based in Beijing as the Guardian's videojournalist, Dan runs the DSLR Newshooter blog and is the video tutor for the MA in International Multimedia Journalism I contribute to. Upon returning to Beijing on Thursday Dan came into class to give an immediate, first-hand account of his experience in Japan. Dan spoke for nearly two hours, offering a revealing and thought-provoking analysis of the aesthetic, logistical and reporting challenges he faced working in the disaster zone. He kindly allowed the talk to be recorded and made available as a podcast. I have edited the talk, taking out the sections that recorded the audio from the video reports he showed. In the recording you will hear questions from DJ Clark, and references to Adam Dean, a freelance photojournalist in Beijing, and Tania Branigan, the Guardian's China correspondent. You can listen to the podcast here, and I have provided the videos Dan discussed so you can follow the discussion and engage the debate about how to cover an event of this magnitude. Some of the key points I took away from the talk were: the logistical challenges of getting to the disaster zone quickly were immense, as were the challenges then faced in moving around the disaster zone. He noted that each day only about 2-3 hours was available for shooting still or video images; the rest of the time was consumed by logistics, be that sourcing fuel, power, internet connections and food although he has advised journalists not to shoot stills and video at the same time during an assignment, this was an event in which that dual function was unavoidable. (Dan's stills galleries can be seen here and here, and he talks about them at 42:00 in the podcast). However he opted to focus on video because of the large number of highly skilled photographers working on the story the fundamental question he thought journalists should ask themselves is 'what are you doing there, and what can you add to the story' given the blanket coverage by both the Japanese and international media in assessing a visual journalist's contribution to the story, he argued that you had to consider the overall media environment you were publishing into. In this story there is the extensive coverage of the Japanese media, the large presence of international agencies and wire services, and extensive social media networks. In this context, the most dramatic footage came from user generated content (such as this video, discussed at 18:15 in the podcast), and it was very hard for international journalists to compete with that. He described a lot of the western coverage as "formulaic," driven by conventions of reporting and the limits of what one could do in the disaster zone. Dan said his function was to be a witness, providing images to take the reader somewhere they are not. He wondered whether we would be seeing some "stylised photojournalism" in an effort to do something different. He felt that the drive to differentiate oneself through aesthetics was problematic. He asked, "how much thinking can you do outside the box photographically in a disaster like this? How much is down to what you come across, what you see?" Dan discussed the videos he produced during the talk. At 15:26 he introduces the first story, which is this standard "television style" package presented by Jonathan Watts, that appeared on the Guardian site on 13 March. [jwplayer config="Custom Player" mediaid="1908"] This was contrasted (at 17:38 in the podcast) to Matt Allard's Aljazeera English report, which Dan regarded as amongst the best of the TV reports. In an effort to offer something different, Dan produced a piece of 'cinematic journalism' he felt embodied the experience of being in the disaster zone. He discusses his intentions at length in the podcast (from 20:55 to 30:00). This film, which took less than two hours to make, David Campbell no 1:03:30 http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/15/thinking-images-v-1/ http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/15/thinking-images-v-1/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:10:50 +0000 davidc7 http://www.david-campbell.org/?p=1393 http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/15/thinking-images-v-1/feed/ 1 http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/20/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-3/ http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/20/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-3/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:03:42 +0000 davidc7 http://www.david-campbell.org/?p=857 http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/20/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-3/feed/ 19 http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/16/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-2/ http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/16/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-2/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:21:56 +0000 davidc7 http://www.david-campbell.org/?p=844 http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/16/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-2/feed/ 10 http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/14/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-1/ http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/14/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-1/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:10:01 +0000 davidc7 http://www.david-campbell.org/?p=767 http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/09/14/revolutions-in-the-media-economy-1/feed/ 17 http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/01/26/newspaper-as-television/ http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/01/26/newspaper-as-television/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:55:09 +0000 davidc7 http://www.david-campbell.org/?p=399 http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/01/26/newspaper-as-television/feed/ 0