The Mobile Storytelling Podcast wytse vellinga

Things are changing in the Mobile Storytelling world. Not only are getting phones more expensive. Also essential apps are switching to subscription models oder raising their prices steeply. Is the the end to the promise that mobile storytelling makes video journalism affordable to anyone who has a story to tell?

Tipps and tricks on how to tell your story with your smartphone - for journalists, podcasters, experts and everyone who´s got something to tell.

The smartphone is the ultimate storytelling tool - for journalists, filmmakers, podcasters and all the other inhabitants of the smartphone universe. In this podcast the journalists Björn Staschen and Wytse Vellinga share alle the tipps and tools based on their 2018 handbook "Mobile Storytelling". They talk to well-known journalists who know the technology well and reflect current developments.

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Find the hosts on Twitter: @WytseVellinga or @bjoernsta

Intro and Outro music (c) Arnav Srivastav - River Lounge (Get it on www.909music.com) via Soundcloud.com

One year after recording the last episode of The Mobile Storytelling Podcast Björn Staschen and Wytse Vellinga met up in London to record a very special (and short) episode of the podcast at the 2022 MoJoFest. For the first time since the start of the pandemic the #mojo world got to meet up again. A new beginning, but also a bit of an ending. Intrigued? Wait until you hear the end of this podcast...

Spanish journalist Leonor Suarez used her mobile phone to cover the Spanish Civil War. Not the real event off course, but a reenactment of the 1930’s war for a documentary. How did she experience being a director, cameraman and journalist at the same time? And what were the challenges in working on the phone?

Clubhouse is the new ‘hip and happening’ social platform. Everybody wants to be on it and some are even willing to pay for an invite. But is this social audio platform useful for journalism? And what about recording a complete podcast on it? We tried it for this very special (and experimental) first episode of season two of the Mobile Storytelling Podcast. With guest appearances by Louisa Houben (ZDF), Marc Settle (BBC) and many others.

Marc Settle is training his colleagues for "that" moment in their career. "My goal is to make people aware of the capabilities of the phone when they need it," for exaple breaking news, when the satellite truck is still miles away. The one scene that can change a journalistic career - Marc Settle is training journalists at the BBC to use their smartphone for mobile reporting. They will always be moments when the camera crew will have the better shot - "but we need more people to be able to use their phone for reporting." Marc gives us a great inside into one of the biggest broadcasters in the world and its workflows around the smartphone. He also talks about his role as a trainer - and of course he gives some hints on apps that he really likes.

"The smartphone makes me feel safe." Martin Heller has been reporting on protests and demonstrations for nearly 20 years. A lot of his current reports are filmed and edited on smartphones. "Somedays it helps not be seen as a reporter with a big microphone and a cameracrew, especially when journalists are shouted at or even attacked." He started using his smartphone for reporting in 2013 with an iPhone 4. Currently he leads a video team at WELT media outlet in Berlin. For him it´s "a decision in every second" what to do next: edit or send a tweet or go live. He tells us about his light equipment, his approach to reporting even in dangerous or challenging situations and emphasizes the importance of video journalists especially at protests: "Sometimes it´s one image, one scene that tells the whole story of a protest."