WASHINGTON, DC, 5 May 2013 — Want to learn how to shoot like THIS? Get a $100 summer discount on my June 6-9 Video Journalism Workshop by using my Promo Code, BGENTILE, at http://videojournalismworkshops.com. Learn how to: Articulate story ideas. Capture powerful images and clean sound. Recognize and cultivate dramatic story arcs. Conduct compelling, in-depth […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 4 May 2013 — Save $100 on my Video Journalism Workshop June 6-9 in Washington. Use my Promo Code, BGENTILE, at http://videojournalismworkshops.com And check out “Chain Gang” at http://vimeo.com/11084281
ARLINGTON, VA, 2 May 2013 — I gave a presentation today on Backpack Video Journalism at the DC Shootoff Workshop in Arlington, VA. Really cool bunch of folks. (All photos by Ken Cedeno)
WASHINGTON, DC, 25 April 2013 — Here’s the ad for the workshop I’m conducting in London on 24-28 June 2013. The Backpack Video Journalism Workshop is sponsored by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, which also is sponsoring a May workshop in Guatemala. The London event will include working journalists from around the “developing world.” I’m really […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 29 March 2013 — Here’s the YouTube version of the State Department film on “citizen journalism.” Click HERE. Citizen journalism is just one component of the broader methodology that we refer to as “backpack video journalism,” the craft of film making done by a single, properly trained practitioner with a hand-held digital camera […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 15 March 2013 — This is a brief piece put together by the U.S. State Department on “citizen journalism,” one component of the broader methodology that we refer to as “backpack video journalism.” Erin Finicane is a former student of mine at American University’s School of Communication, and she embodies the ideal of […]