How to shoot TV News? The NPPA can show you how

Yes yes, this clever bit of video has  gone viral … but seriously, doing the above is harder than it looks.  If you really want to know how to do this, and do this well, go here:

The NPPA News Video Workshop

This is the 50th anniversary of the News Video Workshop, where the best in the business of visual storytelling have learned and shared their skills and wisdom.  I’ve attended this workshop twice, and wrote about it last year.  As the promo materials share:

The NewsVideo Workshop is a week long, intense immersion into the world of moving pictures and sound. You will spend 12 – 16 hours each day learning from a faculty of more than 20 nationally- and internationally-recognized, award-winning journalists: including Bob Dotson, and Darrell Barton. These two alone have 9 Emmy Nominations, 4 Emmy Wins, 2 Photographer of the Year Awards, and 1 Sprague Award among them.

Learn more and sign up at: http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/workshops_and_seminars/NewsVideo_workshop/2010/

Actually, the truth of the Booker video is that visual storytelling is often a “visual language”.

PS:  One of my colleagues from last year’s workshop, Lila Merideth, is hosting the Associated Press’s web video show for the 2010 Winter Olympics,