Today I went over to Freep.com to check out some of their latest videos and came away with a good impression of what they are doing. I am still dismayed at the way some of these larger papers want to look like TV. They had a nice little piece on a place called the Fridge which is a frozen toboggan run - but the reporter kept getting in the way of the story. If she let the people tell the story more, my feeling is that it would have been better. In my opinion let the photography staff do their job, tell stories with pictures and audio.
They did have a nice little weather story that started out great but ended kind of weak. Good b-roll interesting audio (some nasty over modulation of the radio audio), and some split screen for some of the b-roll (I'm not a big fan of this). Some nice focus racking also thrown in. The shots were nice, steady, and well composed and overall it came off great and told the story of snow in Detroit. Click the link below for the Freep video page for Snow Scenes.
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