Introduction to Visual Journalism
Basic safety tips
A course by Gladys Serrano , Documentary Photographer and Videographer
About the video: Basic safety tips
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to tell you the things that you have to take into account to be able to work on our story without taking unnecessary risks. I'll also go over some basic security tools for any journalistic coverage.”
In this video lesson Gladys Serrano addresses the topic: Basic safety tips, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Visual Journalism. Learn to tell real stories and report everyday events through images, audio, and journalism techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Basic safety tips In this lesson you will see some security recommendations with which you can work better, feel safer and more protected while doing your job. Once you have researched as much as possible about your story, the place where it happens, it is very important that you consider the level of risk involved in doing this story. If you think your life is in danger by doing this story, It's better that you don't because you must remember that the most important thing above your work is you. Although I chose this story, which is a bit dangerous because it happens at night, when most of...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Visual Journalism
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Areas
Audio, Communication, Digital Photography, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Photography, Storytelling
Gladys Serrano
A course by Gladys Serrano
Gladys Serrano is a documentary photographer and videographer. She studied a degree in public policy and has taken part in other educational programs like the Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea at Mexico's Centro de la Imagen as well as a visual arts diplomacy at the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. Her work won the 2020 Gabo Prize for best coverage, awarded by the Gabriel García Márquez foundation, she was a finalist at the World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent Program, and was also selected for the Centro de la Imagen's 7th photography biennial, XVII Bienal de Fotografía.
She currently works for the Latin American edition of EL PAÍS producing multimedia coverage on a range of topics including violence, migration, the environment, politics, and culture.
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