Visual Editors partners freelancers network Beamups for videojournalism training

Beamups, the online marketplace for freelance videojournalists, has teamed up with non-profit training organisation Visual Editors to offer a new training course for journalists.

The workshop will cover the fundamentals of videojournalism with a focus on practical, newsroom situations.

Participants can attend all four days of the programme or individual days, which focus on filming and sequences; interviewing for video; video editing; and marketing videos to broadcasters.

"Every student arrives at a different point on the learning curve. Video journalists are responsible for managing multiple narrative forms and there is always some aspect where you can improve," Robb Montgomery, CEO of Visual Editors, told Journalism.co.uk.

The course will run from October 26-9 at London's Camden Arts Centre. More details can be found on its registration website.

Journalism.co.uk is planning to attend some sessions and provide more training guides on the basics of videojournalism.

"To really be proficient in new media today requires reporters and editors to have both a broader and deeper experience with producing visual stories.  Newsrooms that have a solid foundation of workers that know how to produce and manage visual story forms and audio story forms have a distinct advantage and greater range in meeting their audience needs, both today and in future," said Montgomery.

"The ability to tell a visual story is not restricted to the video journalism form. Learning how to put a news film together is a great introduction to just how deep the rabbit hole really goes when planning the best methods for reporting and presenting information in a media world that is increasingly visual."

As part of its partnership with Beamups, which launched in April this year, the programme will also cover producing videojournalism for news buyers - such as Sky and the BBC - and the selling process.

"Beamups wants to be the exchange between freelance VJs and the buyers of news films. That marketplace is a necessary piece today and creates a stronger demand for VJ-produced material to reach a wider audience and for buyers to incorporate more VJ work and grow their correspondents base," said Montgomery.

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