Slides supporting the journalism social video class.

1. Social Video

2. Social Video

5. Why?

8. Lean back

9. Lean forward

12. –Esra Doğramaci
“You can't take TV video people and apply the
same methods to online platforms, because it is
a very different kind of expertise.”

13. Characteristics
• Tend to be short (under one minute)
• Designed to work with no sound (with subtitles),
• Focus on soft news
• Have a strong emotional element.
• Given the growing importance of social media, this
very different format is arguably already affecting
the content and tone of news coverage in general.
Source: Reuters Institute

14. Impact
• 79% of senior digital news leaders surveyed
said they would be investing
• Traditional publishers are planning major
initiatives (e.g. BBC’s Ten to Watch)
• Others are just dipping their toes in the water.
• Most news organisations are in an experimental
phase
Source: Reuters Institute

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17. Escalation
• The New York Times sees video as central to its growth
and engagement strategy, investing in long form and
documentary movies and has also experimented with
Virtual Reality.
• The Washington Post has put TV and video at the heart of
its new newsroom with four live-shot locations.
• News Corp has bought Unruly to drive more socially
relevant video for its brands and for advertisers.
• The Telegraph has an ambitious video strategy with plans
for expanding short form news as well as branded content.

18. –Ze Frank, Buzzfeed Motion Pictures
“On mobile, the peak video consumption hour
is during prime time — which is crazy if you
think about that as a competitive landscape.
Online video is competing with the best
television programming out there.”

21. –Ze Frank, Buzzfeed Motion Pictures
“…is better at conveying dismay in humanity…
than any text”

23. Consumption

25. Communication

27. The Power of Emotion

29. Finding the story

30. Characteristics
• Strong, positive emotion
• Complex emotions
• Elements of surprise

31. –Andrea Iannuzzi, executive editor of AGL (Finegil G'ELocal)
“For local news, the best videos are the ones
that have an emotional impact on the
community.
"It can be good stories or negative situations
that could set an example for other people, but
you have to stay very focused on emotions and
the issues in these communities.”

32. Shareability
• Who will share this?
• Why?
• What’s the emotional trigger?

33. Captioning
• Use to aid storytelling
• Use to keep attention
• Consider colour blocking to make them “pop”

34. Length
• Probably short
• 6 seconds is too short
• 3 minutes is probably too long
• Attention is a better measure
• 3 seconds to get that attention
• Edit ruthlessly

35. –Ze Frank, Buzzfeed Motion Pictures
“It really came out of a number of experiments that
were going on when Facebook launched its
autoplay for real. And we started to see signal
around sort of 40 seconds and the idea of audio
independence became really big. We had a team
called FB 40, which was 40-second Facebook
videos.”

37. Sourcing Material

38. Can you use photos
you find on the web?

39. No.

40. Can you use videos
you find on the web?

41. No.

42. But…

43. Fair Use

44. Fair Dealing

45. –gov.uk guidance
“Fair dealing for criticism, review or quotation is
allowed for any type of copyright work. Fair
dealing with a work for the purpose of reporting
current events is allowed for any type of
copyright work other than a photograph. In
each of these cases, a sufficient
acknowledgment will be required.”

46. –gov.uk guidance
“As stated, a photograph cannot be
reproduced for the purpose of reporting current
events. The intention of the law is to prevent
newspapers or magazines reproducing
photographs for reporting current events which
have appeared in competitor’s publications.”

47. Fair dealing
• Does using the work affect the market for the
original work? If a use of a work acts as a
substitute for it, causing the owner to lose
revenue, then it is not likely to be fair
• Is the amount of the work taken reasonable and
appropriate? Was it necessary to use the amount
that was taken? Usually only part of a work may
be used

48. Fair dealing
• One of the key things to note is that this
exception relates to current events. Generally,
the older the news event, the less likely it is that
this exception will apply.

49. So…

50. Ask

51. Getting rights
• Verify who owns the content. The uploader is
not necessarily the creator.
• Verify whether or not there are any third party
rights embedded within the UGC – for example,
is there any music incorporated?
• Do they want credit?
• Do they want payment?

52. Do NOT
• Encourage them to put themselves in harm’s
way
• Encourage them to break the law
• Identify the contributor if that would put them at
risk
• Work with under-16s: ask for their parent or
guardian

53. Do
• Ask about their wellbeing.
• Remember their emotional health is as important as their physical
safety.
• Explain how you found them and how you were able to contact them
(don’t take for granted that they know how privacy works on different
social sites).
• Make it clear which news organisation you work for.
• Explain how you hope the information they are able to share with you
will make the story stronger.
• Give them your organisational email address or newsroom phone
number so they can ensure they’re talking to who you say you are.

54. Buy

55. Royalty Free Music

56. Production Music

57. Creative Commons

59. “A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of
several public copyright licenses that enable
the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted
work. A CC license is used when an author
wants to give people the right to share, use,
and build upon a work that they have created.”