Beyond the News Danny Bull

#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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#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.

Bing Guan

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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

#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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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  

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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