I think another thing to consider is that the whole idea of an anchorperson, or at least the whole anchorman persona/reporting style, was to give you a “buddy”—someone you could relate to—to sort of personalize the news. That idea is a little passé in light of social media, given that you can choose who your buddies are or create virtual “buddies” (i.e. Google Reader) that deliver your news to you.

@Paul – Funny you should mention that—Andrew did another video for us a while back (also on transportation) where he mixed stills with video.

I want to use stills in my videos and so I hope to figure out an artistic way of using my stills as b-roll which means capturing the audio independently.

As yet, I don’t have all the gear I need but I’m getting there. Hopefully by Christmas I’ll be fully kitted out to tell stories from south London.

Thanks for this, Paul.
http://paultreacy.com/video

I like the point you’ve made too about its timelessness. So often in newsgathering we end up focussing on the new, the now, the facts – but that video removes all context apart from the opening slides, which makes it both immediate and universal. It takes a story that could be very location- and time-specific and makes it relevant to everyone.

Plus it’s not all that often that we get to say news is beautiful. It should happen more.