How AFP journalists produce videos with their smartphones

In an interview at the Rencontres francophones pour la vidéo mobile, organized by Samsa , Juliette Hollier-Larousse, director of the Agence France Presse video, explains how AFP journalists started producing video with their smartphones. 📷 Photo: Anthony Micallef The arrival of the smartphone, a change of technology that has allowed new uses AFP has, in recent years, Rajput Status vediostatus.com Hindi | Royal Rajput Status | Rajputana Status In English | Rajput Attitude Status | Rajput Love Status | Rajput Shayari managed to take advantage of its international network to collect video captures. With more than 1,600 journalists in 151 countries, the agency has incredible coverage opportunities, in addition to those already offered by teams of video journalists. Juliette Hollier-Larousse explains that this process was born from a reflection conducted a decade ago. At the time, not yet smartphones but cameras with which journalists "photo" began to take videos. For text journalists, the only technical way to take video was to do it via a compact device, with only one copy for each office and a complicated process of conversion and editing. According to her,"The arrival of the smartphone has changed the game because all journalists have one, we can now count on them to send photos and videos." The speaker then listed some priorities of AFP: A multimedia cultureIntegrated teams (no silo work)Visual journalismThe importance of the terrainThe quality requirement The agency asks reporters - if they are alone about an unexpected event, a "breaking news" or when they are in a privileged position - to send first images (photos and videos). Sometimes, an entire office is mobilized on an event (earthquake in Mexico in 2017, typhoon Mangkut in Hong Kong in 2018 ...). In addition to security and logistical issues, the local office provides an action plan to send news quickly. Another case where the use of the smartphone changes the game, when a journalist "text" is alone on a story. The speaker takes the example of high school students kneeled by law enforcement in Mantes la Jolie, where a local text reporter had filmed the entire scene from afar, and was able to send his images to the team "fact" check "which for its part was able to verify that the facts went well. Same thing in Nantes, with the case of a journalist who intervened with Gilets Jaunes. She had been trained to film and make sound recordings and had provided usable content of good quality, taken with a smartphone and without microphone. After her talk, Juliette Hollier-Larousse gave us more details on the place of mobile video within AFP, answering a few questions. What about this AFP training program for journalists? Have you seen improvements since it was put in place? It is important that people know what to do in case of breaking news. All AFP journalists follow 2 days of training during which they learn the different types of plans to master, benefit from technical advice, especially on the need to film horizontally, do not make sudden movements, properly manage the contrasts of color to have a good focus, to have a more visual approach ... Then comes a day of tests where they experiment. Without this day of training, people who were not used to taking videos sent us several separate plans via WhatsApp, in several messages. Our video editing center does not have a huge capacity, and this training also allows us to have images that are more easily usable by our publishers. What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of mobile video? One of the biggest drawbacks is the battery. The sound can be so if you do not have a sound kit. Otherwise, anything that could interfere with the video, stability if you do not have a stabilizer or tripod, or conditions, especially at night when there is not much light. In terms of the benefits of mobility, when it comes to moving or even running, it's still easier with a smartphone than a big camera. Ditto for security Rajput Status vediostatus.com Hindi | Royal Rajput Status | Rajputana Status In English | Rajput Attitude Status | Rajput Love Status | Rajput Shayari , when we want to get closer we are still less spotted with a smartphone. Turning to the smartphone also makes it possible to be on par with the person filmed, without this impressive side of the camera. Finally, we can note the instantaneity, the fact of being able to start filming quickly and especially to send the images in a very short period of time. With his camera when you're not live, then you have to export the video on your laptop, edit, send ... The process is long. On smartphone we have a editing application, we can also use the "speech-to-text" to describe the plans. Often, What is the share of mobile video in the reports made by AFP journalists? The videos shot with smartphone represent a small proportion of all our