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R1000 for your breaking news videos! Breaking news is happening all the time around us, and often professional journalists with TV cameras only arrive on the scene when the peak of the action has passed. It's usually ordinary citizens who happen to be on the scene who have the best opportunity to record breaking news using their cellphone cameras. If you've got a video-enabled cellphone and you come across something newsworthy, film it and send it to MyVideo - if the video is compelling, engaging and exclusive, you could win R1000! The citizen journalism phenomenon is growing rapidly now that the technology needed to record video and publish it online is relatively cheap and accessible. Citizen journalism differs from traditional journalism in that citizen journalists are not governed by a professional code of conduct. While this may be to the detriment of citizen journalism's credibility, the positive aspect of anyone being able to share something noteworthy with the world - either in their subjective words or with an objective video - is extremely powerful and empowering. To provide and develop an exciting platform for citizen journalism, MyVideo is encouraging anyone and everyone to film newsworthy video content on a camcorder or mobile phone and then MMS or email these videos to MyVideo Editors will review each exclusive news video we receive at the above address, and will, if the video is exclusive, compelling, engaging and responsible, pay out R1000 to the videomaker. Winning videos will be featured on the site and could be featured in a press release to the mainstream media. So, your video could bring you instant fame! Here are two examples of breaking news videos.
The first was filmed outside the Cape High Court when the Norton family exited the court after Dina Rodrigues was convicted of murder. This type of video can be made by anyone who happens to be in the area at the time - you don't need to be a professional journalist to produce this type of video.
This is of a suspected thief being arrested by a security company. Once again, you just have to be in the right place at the right time to get this kind of footage. You may want to put a little more journalistic effort into your breaking news videos. You can enhance them substantially by interviewing key figures related to what the video is about. Find an official who is in a position to comment and get them to answer a few questions for you on video - this will immediately increase the credibility and usefulness of your video. As an example: here is a video which MyVideo produced about the eNatis traffic system problems. We filmed a few scenes from the Greenpoint Traffic Department, and then tracked down the official who could give us some answers and included key quotes from our interview with him in the video.
Be part of the citizen journalism phenomenon - keep your eyes and your ears open to what's going on around you and make sure you have your phone handy at all times so that you can capture on video anything newsworthy that happens around you! How it works 1. Simply film a compelling newsworthy video on your camcorder or mobile phone, provide a brief description of the video and email or MMS it to 2. The MyVideo Editors will then review each video based on a number of criteria, of which exclusive and responsible newsworthiness, together with sufficient video and sound quality, will be the most important. 3. Once the video has been reviewed, you will be notified if your video has been selected for the R1000 prize. All correspondence will be via email. 4. The selected clip will be exclusively featured on the site and will be posted to a unique feature category called "Breaking News." 5. The use of this feature is subject to the terms below.
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