Video Workload survey results.

Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under video

I’ve been meaning to link to this survey for awhile now. Andy did a great job with it and it should prove useful in educating those around you on how time demanding video production can be.

A few key findings:

You should allow 4 hours to produce 1 minute of video

There are no clearly defined roles in newsrooms for video (This tells me photojournalists should be establishing themselves as the visual storytellers before someone else moves in on the opportunity)

Photographers would be expected to shoot stills as well as video for a story in 66% of the newsrooms who responded…..If we take the headline that the same person will be shooting and editing video these figures are pretty scary. You’re going to be very busy.

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Tim believes photographs can touch people in ways our hearts can only understand. Tim is a recent grad of the graduate program in Visual Communications at Ohio University. See his portfolio and newly designed website here. Comments, ideas, or suggestions? Email Tim at timg@timgruber.com

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