Beyond the News Danny Bull
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Behind the scenes access to the journalists who bring you the news from across the globe.
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Beyond the News Ep. 10 - Xinyan Yu - Journalist from China covering the George Floyd Protest and Coronavirus for BBC NEWS
#coronavirus #georgefloyd #covid19 Xinyan Yu, is a Chinese Journalist with the BBC, she's originally from Wuhan, China, so she has a very unique perspective seeing the virus spread from Wuhan to the rest of China and then to the US. As she Chinese journalist she talks about some of the discrimination that has come to her and other Asians / Asian Americans as Coronavirus reached the United States.
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Beyond the News Ep. 9 - Alexis Johnson - Black Journalist Barred from Covering George Floyd Protests
#georgefloydprotests #georgefloyd #protests Full unedited interview with Alexis Johnson on how she was barred from covering the US Protest. Alexis is a Journalists with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and after a tweet of hers went viral she says was unable to get story pitches through her editors, barring her from covering the protest. This is her story and voice in a full unedited interview. We talk about the controversial tweet, what it's like being a young black journalist in the newsroom, her background with two parents in law enforcement, advice to young black and minority journalists and the power of mentors. I hope you enjoy this discussion.
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Bing Guan - Beyond the News Ep. 8 - Journalist covering the George Floyd Protest in Los Angeles
Bing Guan
#GeorgeFloydprotests #justiceforgeorgefloyd #civilunrest #protests #defundthepolice #abolishthepolice #minneapolis #losangeles #covid #coronavirus #virus #covid19 #GeorgeFloyd
Bing Guan talks about covering the George Floyd Protests in Los Angeles as a photojournalist.
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Timecode:
0:27 - Introduction
0:50 - Peak craziness
1:07 - tensions have calmed down.
1:57 - difference of US and Hong Kong protest.
2:56 - high emphasis on remaining peaceful
4:27 - Abolish the Police department and Defund the police.
4:57 - Police budget compared to the CDC budget
5:27 - covering a protest during COVID-19
9:27 - hit by pepper ball.
9:55 - they are targeting journalists
9:55 - what gear do you have? Masks for covid and masks for tear gas
10:20 - full face gas masks
10:27 - P100 filters
11:27 - Initiative for Black Press Freedom Fund
12:00 - Huge need for PPE - Personal Protection Equipment
13:00 - Advice for new journalists
13:40 - Bias and perspective to news stories.
13:57 - Build your network -
Beyond the News Ep. 7 - Oliver Wright - Creating a subscriber base on social media
#viralvideos #tictoc #socialmedia Today we talk to Oliver Wright who has a large following on youtube and tic toc and creates videos about editing, product reviews and tech.
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Beyond the News Ep. 6 - Taimoor Sobhan - How to Become a Documentary Filmmaker
Taimoor Sobhan is a documentary filmmaker working for human rights organization, #fortifyrights. He is based in bangkok and shares his knowledge about filmmaking, going from film to digital, and making films form life in refugee camps to Muay Thai fights in Bangkok's prison system.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - teaser
0:38 - Introduction
1:10 - start in to film making from documentaries, features films, 16mm to digital
3:56 - Log and capture and proper logging techniques
6:09 - Journey into human rights film making
7:45 - Working in Bangladesh
8:30 - Cox’s Bazaar, Kutupalong refugee camp and Rohingya in 2008
10:00 - Seeing Rohingya refugee camps change over 10 years from 2008 to 2017 and onward
11:15 - Seeing cramped refugee camps
13:40 - The enormity of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar Bangladesh
16:00 - Human rights videos
18:00 - Calling this Genocide
18:54 - Whats it like going to Cox’s Bazaar and into the Refugee camps
20:00 - Filming in Crisis 23:00 - The still shoot and motion picture.
23:16 - The language of motion pictures for human rights documentation
24:10 - Rohingya refugees documenting their exodus on their cell phones.
26:13 - Looking at images of crisis and pain over and over as a film editor
27:10 - Covering Trauma
27:50 - Getting human rights films on New York Times OpDocs
31:42 - Re-traumatizing subjects in crisis
32:34 - how to protect a person in crisis
32:58 - cut throat industry in times of crisis
33:33 - fast paced news vs. documentaries in covering crisis
33:48 - asking deeper crisis
34:14 - documentary their genocide on their cellphones
35:03 - prejudice we carry to Rohingya refugee camps
35:33 - social media in refugee camps
35:46 - Giving cellphones and instagram to Rohingya refugees to tell their story.
37:33 - How refugee camps work, and the power of social media from the inside
38:42 - Internet shutdown in Refugee camps
41:02 - what makes a good shot, what makes a good photo or video?
41:43 - The motion picture camera as an empathy machine.
42:23 - tracking shots in film
42:36 - the importance of good sound design
43:21 - not rehashing images and perpetuating stereotypes
44:20 - Netflix and the rebirth of documentary film
45:34 - Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka inspiring a generation of film makers.
47:28 - The birth of Cinema and role of filming in society
48:31 - Dune 2020
49:03 - The democratization of Film making
49:50 - The DSLR revolution
50:11 - Photography and videographer are two different art forms 53:16 - Documentary film making is now mass entertainment 53:20 - The best thing about film making 55:25 - The Muay Thai Fight for freedom in Khlong Phrem Prison. 58:23 - One piece of advice -
Beyond the News Ep. 5 - Matt Ford - The Power of Storytelling and Starting a Business During COVID19
Matt has an extensive media background from lighting major Hollywood movies such as Spider man 2, Working at the associated Press where he was based in Egypt as their multimedia and interactive producer for the Middle East. He was founder and CEO of Vignette Interactive where he led a team of to film projects in more than 30 countries and with clients such as National Geographic, Unicef among others. He now runs his own media company under his name: Matt Ford Media based in Barcelona, Spain.
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