A powerful story by Gilbert Garcia and video by Vianna Davila explore the rich history and slow decline of San Antonio’s East Side.
The video is different from your typical TV news broadcast. You don’t see Vianna talking into a microphone and interjecting herself into the scene. Instead, the video has a documentary-style feel to it. Vianna patiently let images and sound tell the story. Awesome.
Awesome video by Vianna Davila about a high-school band competition in Texas, where marching bands are a very big deal. I especially liked the close-ups showing the marchers’ fancy footwork.
Vianna Davila wrote this story about the 10th anniversary of a deadly ambush that killed two deputies and a state trooper in Atascosa County. But I thought her video was especially well done. Without sensationalizing the tragedy, it lays out what happened in a straightforward, sober tone, told in the words of a deputy who was there. Powerful stuff.
The wicked thunder of the storm this morning woke up everyone in our house but the baby. It was 3:30 a.m. I couldn’t sleep, so I got the video camera, went out on the porch and witnessed some amazing lightning. The video is up right now at mySA.com, and it’s packaged with a photo slideshow by Express-News photographers of the flooding, and a weather story by Eva Ruth Moravec.
The friendly staff at the South Texas Project nuclear plant gave me a tour for my story about nuclear safety, which is running tomorrow. This video just went live on mySA.com and it gives you a sense of how the plant looks and sounds.
Even Twitter gets in on the act.
Angela Grant at News Videographer has a cool post about video projects published on YouTube by a class of Texas State University journalism students taught by David Nolan.
Most in the class had never used a video camera or worked with editing software.
Angela Grant at News Videographer has some fantastic tips for anyone who wants to improve their skills in shooting and editing video. If you’re tired of uploading shaky cell phone videos to YouTube, these pointers are for you.
Angela was our online video guru at the San Antonio Express-News and she saved my butt when I was in Portland doing a story about light rail. I had a point-and-shoot Panasonic Lumix with me that takes QuickTime video. My boss, David Sheppard, suggested I take some video of the rail system to show San Antonians what it’s like.
Great idea. Just one problem:
I had no idea how to take good video.
