Nashville TV station trains amateur bloggers

When a news web site educates citizen journalists it has a two-fold benefit: The amateurs will improve their skills, and they're likely to think of submitting to the site that trained them when they create content worth publishing. So, kudos to WKRN-TV for the Video 101 session it conducted Saturday. (Link props to Buzz Machine.)

Brittney, posting on the Nashville is Talking blog, said:

The purpose was to give "citizen journalists" some tips on how to best shoot video for stories they want to tell. Whether it is your son's baseball game or a tornado or some sort of disaster. ... I learned a lot as they talked about how to steady your shots, how to take static pictures a viewer can comfortably watch.

Participant Rex Hammock wrote:

Here is what you should do if you want to get video on TV:
1. Hold the camera still.
2. Don't move the camera around.
3. Don't narrate the video with comments like, "this is a tornado hitting a cow."

More at timmorgan.com and Chasing the Dragon's Tale.

About 20 local bloggers signed up to participate, according to Terry Heaton, a WKRN consultant.

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