YouTube's Project: Report videojournalism contest, produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, has announced its five grand-prize winners. Each receives a $10,000 grant "to report on an under-reported story outside of the United States."
Here are the winning entries. Let us know what you think:
Mark Jeevaratnam tells the story of a group addressing prescription drug abuse in an Appalachian coal-mining town in southeast Kentucky:
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Paul Franz follows the story of Joseph Dieune, a Haitian migrant worker who sends money to his family back home:
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Samantha Danis explores the challenges facing the deaf community in America:
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Alex Rozier reports on an organization in Missouri trying to help the world’s immobile people:
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Elan Gepner documents how the Philadelphia Student Union is trying to combat violence through community-building efforts:
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For other honorees, visit the Project: Report center, where you can also see the semifinalists' submissions and their video blogs.
We hope their work inspires you to think about ways you can use your video camera and YouTube to share important stories with the rest of the world.
Hurry! The first round of YouTube's Project: Report contest ends tomorrow (Sunday). Upload your three-minute video (about a day in the life of someone who's making a positive impact on their community), and you could win a $10,000 grant to pursue videojournalism internationally.
We've previously shared YouTube's video tips for producing your video, here and here.
Now we've got another half dozen doses of advice about media management, story building, editing techniques, compression, audience building, promoting your video, and incorporating print journalism techniques into your video reporting.
Each short video features an accomplished professional videojournalist. So whether or not you choose to enter the contest, you're bound to glean some useful instruction here:
Project Report Production Tip #9:Media Management
(Whitney Shefte, Washington Post videojournalist)
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Project Report Production Tip #10:Story Building
(Pierre Kattar, former Washington Post videojournalist)
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Project Report Production Tip #11:Editing Techniques
(Robin Bell, Bell Visuals production company)
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Project Report Production Tip #12: Compression
(Michael Rickley, Azimuth Media video producer)
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Project Report Production Tip #13:Increasing Your Audience
(Mark Stanley, New Media Strategist, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)
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Project Report Production Tip #14:Print to Video Journalism
(Jason Motlagh, Pulitzer Center international multimedia journalist)
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CRITERIA: What makes a great videojournalism story?
If you decide to enter, be sure to read the rules. And even videojournalists who don't enter would do well to heed the judging criteria below (which, not coincidentally, is remarkably similar to the checklist we use to select video stories to showcase on KobreGuide to the Web's Best Videojournalism).
# Is the story topic interesting and compelling?
# Was the story reported from an original and unique perspective?
# How thorough was the reporting?
# Did the Entrant have an engaging storytelling style?
# How well did the Entrant technically execute the video? (i.e. the use of camera, sound, lighting, and editing)
# What was the overall impression?
As we previously noted, YouTube's Project: Report competition, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, is underway. The assignment: "Document a single day in the life of a compelling person that you think the world should know about and showcase how that person is making a positive impact in his/her community." In less than three minutes.
First-round deadline: Feb. 28. Grand prize: a $10,000 grant to work on an international videojournalism project.
Meanwhile, the Project has issued a series of short videos that offer production tips. Each one is not especially dense with info, but anyone who shoots video can probably glean a few helpful lessons from these:
The Pulitzer Center is awarding five $10,000 grants to work on an international videojournalism project.
YouTube presents Project: Report 2010, a journalism contest for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell the stories that might not otherwise be covered by the media, and to share those stories with the world.
This year, Project: Report will consist of two rounds of competition held over the next three months. In each round, contestants will be given a reporting assignment to complete. After the first round, 10 finalists will be chosen by a panel of judges at the Pulitzer Center. Each finalist will receive a Sony VAIO notebook and a Sony HD video camera and proceed to the second and final round, where they will compete for five $10,000 travel fellowships to work with the Pulitzer Center on an international reporting project.
All five winners will also receive invitations to Washington, D.C., for a public screening of their work and the chance to participate in a special workshop with Pulitzer Center journalists. Arturo Perez, Jr., the winner of the first edition of Project: Report, traveled to Jerusalem and worked with the Pulitzer Center to produce a story on dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis.
Here's the assignment for Round 1 of Project: Report 2010:
Document a single day in the life of a compelling person the world should meet and showcase how that person is making a positive impact in his or her community. All videos must be three minutes or less, and submitted in English, or with English subtitles. Submissions will be open through February 28, 2010.
Even if you do not participate in or advance past Round 1, you may still complete the assignment for Round 2, though you will not be eligible for the grand prize. YouTube and the Pulitzer Center hope to highlight and bring an audience to as many of your stories as possible.
Here are some tips, in the video below, regarding what kinds of stories and formats the Pulitzer Center is looking for. It's worth a look even if you're not planning to enter, since it sums up the essence of most high-quality videojournalism -- a narrative story about an engaging character whose circumstance emblemizes and illuminates a bigger problem or situation that impacts us all.
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