Helen Philpot
From broadcast to publishing, production to training, advice to delivery. Currently at News Int.
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- Jan 16, 12
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Face Substitution from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
Just thought I’d share this with you all after spotting it on the must read http://berglondon.com/blog/2012/01/16/your-friday-links-on-monday/ blog roll. Just goes to show what you can do with video if you’re craving a make over
Download the app here github.com/arturoc/FaceSubstitution
- Nov 24, 11
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I stumbled across this post on http://kottke.org/ It’s really thought provoking in terms of how we present news stories now and in the future, maybe even a concern as news drifts towards entertainment. One of the great opportunities of digital is the convergence of genre. One such platform is Popcorn which is very exciting. This open source site allows video, audio and other media to control elements of a webpage. They suggest authors can let their media be the “conductor” of interactive and immersive experiences. Other cinematic type approaches are presented by journalists who merge the audio and still genre to create amazing storytelling. Duck Rabbit are brilliant at making sure the story is central and that the genre or tools selected to tell it are appropriate. I share their passion for audio having worked like them in radio for many years. Sound is a very evocative sense and sometimes you can even smell it! The Missing is a piece that evokes incredible emotion.
Great stories are great stories irrespective of the publishing platform. What digital allows is a more rich way of telling them. Those that are successful are those that choose the right tools in the box to tell these great stories.
- Jul 29, 11
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http://mediastorm.com/blog/2011/07/28/interview-with-mediastorm-producer-rick-gershon/
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to work with a number of exceptional camera operators. I’ve always been struck by the adaptability of their approach to every story constantly thinking ahead and problem solving along the way. Learning from those who are out in the field shooting everyday sometimes in extreme conditions is essential for today’s video journalists who can often underestimate pre planning.
It’s often the smallest trivial thing that can halt the whole shoot which is why this account is a must read for anyone commissioning, deploying, producing and shooting.
Enjoy!
- Jul 18, 11
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I’d barely got my feet under the table at NOTW but I felt like one of
the team from day one. This video sums up the professionalism and spirit
of the people who brought you Britains biggest selling Sunday
newspaper. I wish them all the best of luck. - Mar 14, 11
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhbml6_lady-gaga-born-this-way_music
I was more than a little excited about feasting my eyes on the latest Gaga video creation. What would follow the spectacle of ‘telephone’?? Um STEPS yes STEPS that is what this song and video reminds me of! A euro pop sing along tune with all the hand movements of ‘tragedy’ only thing missing is ‘H’!
- Mar 09, 11
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This video is on tape so quality isn’t good but the concept is very much of our time. Also I love the fashion
- Mar 07, 11
- Feb 28, 11
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Birmingham City Carling Cup win – fans’ reaction – Road to Wembley – Sport – Videos & Pics – Birmingham Mail http://t.co/Jg0rwpp
25 seconds in and we get to see what can only be described as emotional images. The poor sound, badly focused, out of frame shots do not distract from the compelling nature of the subject, essentially…joy. The badly scripted intro and poorly shot GV’s (general views) are a good example of why trying to emulate big production TV is not only tough on your own but totally unnecessary. My suggestion is to approach the video element of the story holistically. What does the moving image offer that text and still images don’t? The added value element.
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- People and processes need to change via @HarvardBiz: The page is dead http://t.co/vD6Gv93xBR @karenmcgrane
- @Adam_Wild that's hilarious! Poor you
- @TheSTStyle day in the life of Modern Man has broken my husband!! V funny
- RT @MediaREDEF: Forget the living room: Amazon is fighting for your whole damn house http://t.co/VY1SHV1Jau
- How To Be An Optimist: 10 Habits That'll Help You Look On The Bright Side http://t.co/vy5AgL5KWD
- Bitten the bullet and bought Apple TV for evenings of TV dross just like this!! #bgt
- RT @BrianStorm: Everyone Secretly Hates “Snow Fall” | The Awl http://t.co/1jO8iNu0Zd
- RT @petersands55: Great analysis of the Oklahoma tornado front pages by @charlesapple http://t.co/EHGDOWATD3 Stunning images. #newspapers #…
- RT @imaginedpm: Thought leader: The six stages of systemic change - Inside Knowledge:http://t.co/2iatzbGQD4 via @pearltrees #LeadershipinaN…
- RT @wespope: The real Snowfall effect: "There is A LOT more interest in what we do." --David Frank, NYT video team #nppaimmersion
- RT @kate_day: So true MT @rajunarisetti: @fieldproducer @brianstelter easy to blame tech.Workflow,culture & processes in place is the real …
- The blackboard in my bathroom in Brooklyn, NYC! That's Big Ben btw http://t.co/wHSC9kw39t
- Good luck guys RT @andycomfort: We're off now to London for the Sony Radio Academy Awards. Fingers (cont) http://t.co/fEzVdJPwZJ
- RT @NewspaperWorld: Biz Watch: Two strategies: The Washington Post vs. The NYT, by @filloux http://t.co/2QszVqFMtB
- Find the online video audience first! via RT @NewspaperWorld: Market Watch: Original web video (cont) http://t.co/cCozBTvWbm
- RT @StKonrath: Google set to unveil subscriptions for specialist YouTube videos, by @FT http://t.co/eqggvnh7E9
- I wish I was in Hull now!!! Rockin #hcfc
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- Head of Editorial Development at News InternationalNewspapers | Hull, United Kingdom, GBSummary
Diverse experience of the UK media industry working at the forefront of change. Ambitious and strategic with a passion for developing people and teams.
A highly successful and engaging learning and development management lead with a track record of designing and delivering creative editorial development solutions within complex highly distributed organisations. Confident in managing multiple stakeholders and suppliers and experienced in leading cross organisation teams.
Training and lecturing at events and conferences in creative media and the future of news is an enjoyable biproduct of my experience of huge change in multiple media environments. My latest challenge builds on this experience and commitment to journalism.
I am a tenacious Project Manager developing new work flows to increase commercial opportunities whilst improving the user experience.
I'm currently undertaking an accredited coaching qualification
Specialties:
* Project Management
* Learning and Development
* Change Management
* Stakeholder liaison.
* Research and report writing.
* Managing people
* Managing budgets and meeting targets.
* Business Development.
* Strategic planning and negotiation
* External and Internal Communications, with a range of different audiences.
* Specialisms: video journalism, production, voice over, presentation, online, pay walls, media management and workflow, editing and data analysisExperience- Oct 2011 - PresentHead of Editorial Development / News International
Created a bespoke portfolio of project related learning and development interventions specifically around change management including a Digital Leadership Programme for editorial colleagues. Delivering training on a new CMS (Methode) to a large scale diverse audience of 1500 staff. Identify opportunities for commercial and creative content creation and distribution through collaborative relationship building.
- Jan 2011 - Oct 2011Ex Head of Video News of the World / NI
Strategic lead for multimedia development for NOTW online. Day to day management inc. workflow, budgets, compliance, commissions/acquisitions, managing third party suppliers and developing the wider team. Advocate of 360 commissioning and able to perform across whole supply chain including script writing, production, legal, presentation, filming, editing and upload. Knowledge of pay walls, CMS, SEO, social media strategy and iPad.
- Jun 2010 - Jan 2011Chair Economic Growth and Renaissance / North East Lincolnshire Regeneration Partnership
Part of North East Lincolnshire Council Local Strategic Partnership. Chair a board of business leaders committed to change and the strategic development of the area. Driving a communications strategy which included the delivery of a new brand for NE Lincolnshire
- 2009 - Jan 2011Director / CPO Media
Provide expertise to a non profit media start up including bid writing, strategic support, stakeholder management and communications strategy.
- 2008 - Jan 2011Managing Director / Immage Studios & Channel 7
Strategic manager responsible for:
Technical broadcast management, compliance, scheduling staff, post-production, commercial business sales, PR / Marketing, funding and delivery of enhancement programmes - May 2009 - Dec 2010Consultant / North Lincs Digital Inclusion Unit
- Jan 2006 - Jan 2010Consultant / Press Association
Create and deliver a portfolio of multimedia courses including video journalism, presentation, writing for TV and audio editing and podcasting
- 2009 - 2009Chair / NE Lincolnshire Innovation & Growth Committee
- Sept 2005 - Jun 2006Television Reporter / Ministry of Defence
Television Reporter for British Forces Broadcasting Service based in Cyprus
- Jan 1997 - Aug 2005Senior Broadcast Journalist / BBC
TV reporter, TV presenter BBC Look North, radio presenter (over 10 years experience), video journalist and editor.
Education-
2008 - 2010The University of HuddersfieldMasters in MBA
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1993 - 1996University of Nottingham1st in English and Communications
Activities: Kick FM - student radio
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With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.“Journalism is one of the most neophile professions there is. It wouldn’t exist without change: news is about what’s new.”
Great article by Benji Lanyado
This hour long presentation from TED Talks at the Vimeo Awards is one of the most useful I’ve watched. It enforces the belief that the story is at heart of the audiences relationship with content.
Make people care and they’ll share!
I wrote the other day about how one of the important ideas behind MATTER is that less is more. But what does that really mean in practice?
First, it means we can do some big stories — produce really deep, high-quality journalism. Most digital news outlets are focused on the day-to-day, on…
Another great multimedia piece from the LA Times. Agree with http://drewvigal.tumblr.com/ hot on the heels of the NYTimes!
A simply entertaining and compelling way to illustrate the history of cameras through animation and pixels. Well done.
the camera collection (by antonio vicentini)
via: @hellofromcath > @MyDigitalVisual
Forget About It: Making the Internet More Like Our Brains
Snapchat is an iPhone app that, fascinatingly and maybe even usefully, lets you apply a time limit to the photos you share with friends. You can decide whether your recipient (or a group of recipients) sees a photo for 2 seconds, or 5, or 10 … before what they see disappears entirely. Think Path, with a focus on photos. Think Instagram, with an expiration date.
Since Snapchat allows users to send pictures to each other with slightly less fear of those pictures being seen by the wrong people, its most obvious use, Nick Bilton pointed out today, is — yep — sending suggestive photos. But the app’s blink-and-you-miss-it UI speaks, even more broadly, to a market for something much broader than just sexting. Snapchat is a silly entry in a burgeoning genre: products that harness the power not of memory, but of forgetting.
Anti-archival tools provide a countervailing force to one of the defining features of the Internet: that, with its nearly infinite space, “save all” is its default setting. Without even trying, the Internet remembers. And that doesn’t just mean that the comment you left on that Joss Whedon fan site that one time is still sitting there, emoticon-ed and gif-ed and captured for posterity within the all-knowing neurons of Google. It also means that the web, as a broad space, operates on both an assumption and an architecture of continuity. Within it, and all around it, archive is assumed. Even when we die … there, still, we are.
So when we talk about the Internet, we talk about feeds and flows and rivers and currents — things determined by their dynamism and their lack of obvious containers.
And: That’s great! It’s what makes the Internet the Internet! The only problem, however, is that constant flux-and-flow is not actually how we humans are programmed to move through the world. We live in fits and starts, in cycles and phases, and we divide our time not just socially, in shared minutes and hours, but physically. We wake. We sleep. We have beginnings. We have endings.
Read more. [Image: Snapchat]
Damn I’m crying at work again. Multimedia can evoke such emotion…
Powerful work from Béa, Nick, Soo-Jeong and Nancy. Amazing that this was one of the first time that Béa shot video. She naturally captured it with an eye of a still shooter but translated it successfully to video. We’ve had this in the queue for awhile and every time I’ve watched it, I still can’t help but tear up.
Spend some time with the entire series: The Vanishing Mind. Great work from all.
In Love and Loss
Michael French has frontotemporal dementia, for which there is no cure or treatment. As his condition deteriorated, his wife, Ruth, had to move him to a nursing home, where she spends most days.
by Béatrice de Géa, Nick Harbaugh, Soo-Jeong Kang and Nancy Donaldson
This really resonates. Content and Context are the new black everybody!
We need content strategies.
There is a difference, in the way the concept must be applied to the day-to-day business of disseminating information to people.
For many newspapers today, (especially smaller market newspapers like the one I work for), there is a pressing assumption we need to find…
Ben gets emotional at the end:
Let’s *frakin’* do it, I’m done…
Human-assisted Reporting
Ben Welsh from The LA Times at ISOJ 2012
#1: Digital advertising is struggling, even for a major brand such as the New York Times.
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This confirms a much feared trend. By and large, in a news context, the performance of digital advertising is on the decline. All indicators are now flashing red: CPM (cost per thousand impressions), cost per click, volumes, yields, etc. The cause is well-known, and way more acute for digital than for print: ads and news contents do compete for the same eyeballs. The more attractive and eye-catching the content is, the lesser the ad yields. Behavioral advertising won’t change that much — at least for hard core, high value-added news environment.
This decline also announces a major shift in the way ads are sold. The advertising flow is likely to split: premium ads such as well-placed special packages will still be sold for high prices by in-house teams. But the bulk of the inventory will shift downward to bazaars in which gazillions of pageviews will be dumped into real-time exchanges supposed to optimize prices. The bad news: such schemes are likely to fuel deflationary trends for remnant (i.e. sub-premium) inventories. The good news: media organizations such as online news outlets or pure players are likely to join such marketplaces and perhaps gain an operating role of sorts — assuming they are smart enough to cooperate (I’ll address this in an upcoming column).
Always sharp and because of that a bit painful.
Why newspapers are hiring Social Media producers capable of spreading the knowledge…
Good advice on the commissioning process for legacy publishers entering a rich media world
‘Surprise’ the only genuine requirement in narrative storytelling says Amy. I’m in total agreement however these themes, although relevant and important in todays connected world, are not new. Shakespeare was demonstrating exactly the same principle and his narrativer arc has been the basis for many a blockbuster.
Compelling cues have also been the rock of storytelling in all genre; news, drama, comedy etc but why should we drop them just because the web provides extra capability or interactivity. And why, if these elements are key to our experience do we perceive them as a lower form task i.e. a job for the ‘web monkey’
What’s really interesting here is the cue and the reward relationship and what makes people ‘care’. A brilliant watch.
Beyond the “Like” Button: Digitally Addictive Storytelling and the Brain
Her presentation discusses the brain and its relationship to immediate news. As a writer who crafts the online narrative of a story at the time the idea is conceived, she is uniquely skilled to speak to the power of social media in the news.
