Tony Mazzulli, a real-estate agent in Westchester county, NY, talks about how he made easy money two years ago at the peak of the housing bubble. 2007 was his best year after managing to sell an office compound and pocket a 50,000 dollar commission.
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I want to share with you a series of videos I recently watched on CNNMoney.com. The videos are excellent examples of the so-called “multimedia/all platform journalism” as they were produced, shot and edited by one person. The quality of the work is outstanding considering it was not executed by a TV crew but by talented and experienced videojournalists. I like the way the photographers use natural sound to advance the story and give the viewer a sense of the featured place. It is worth noticing the hard cuts – there are almost no video effects – just great close-ups and dynamic shots.
http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2009/10/14/smb_timeless_clocks.cnnmoney/
http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2009/10/14/smb_shoe_cobbler.cnnmoney/
http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2009/10/16/farmer_of_the_seas_edit.cnnmoney/
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Q: How did you start working as a journalist?
A: I started back in college I went to Province college in Rhode Island and we had the idea that we could have a night show and that transformed in to a whole TV series. Than I got an internship in a television. And when you work in TV you do very specific jobs. I realized I wanted to do everything. So I worked briefly for a local station (in New York). (Then he started working for a website) We are literary the definition of a one man band. As a producer I am able to edit my own stories, shoot video, report, go on camera we get to do so many things….and it’s really cool.
Q: You also experience the other side of the coin- when you were doing just one very specific task for a TV show. Can you tell us more about that?
A: Sure. I was working for a show and they did one feature piece everyday and it’s really a short amount of time. The story was highly produced and highly reported so everyone had to be really good at one specific thing. The reporter was very good at finding the facts and reporting everything. The producer was really good at she was responsible for and the editor was good at editing the piece. But everyone’s job was segmented.
Q: What were you doing exactly?
A: My experience was gathering all the video elements. If they were doing a story on AIG and the outrage over how much money their CEOs were making and I would be responsible to make sure we have enough video of AIG, enough video of the new CEO and all the images that we needed. [...] It was amazing to learn the editorial process but because the day was so stressful I didn’y get to do all the things that I was interested so being a multi media journalist I get to do everything.
Q: How does the fact that you re a multimedia journalist doing everything affect your reporting?
A: I was filming a morgue filled with hundred of bodies and while it was incredibly depressing in there and really hard to see I was thinking how am I gonna edit that story how am I gonna help bring that story with the reporter. And from a storyteller perspective that’s awesome.
Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a multimedia journalist?
A: There are deffinitevely advantages and disadvantages. What they are doing in live TV is unbelievably impressive and it’s entirely a different piece. The advantages from my perspective is being part of every process. I get to do every single part of the entire story when you sit back and watch the final product you remember how it was to edit it, how it was to ask the questions and that’s an experience only multimedia producers get to do.
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