Breaking News: The Car Chase
If you live in LA, the car chase is nothing new to you. What I like is when the news channel broadcasts viewer videos of a chase or incident. It’s from a totally different perspective than with this chopper cam. It’s with blind luck that some of these things are caught on tape. And with even more, they wind up on the evening news. One minute, the stranger is taping a family moment, and the next, a speeding car could be driving by with cops speeding after it. And like that, a person could turn a Canon Dc40 into a profitable and exciting news camera. The quality of the footage won’t matter to a news station if the event is juicy enough. Pete Doherty is cursing the camcorder used by a couple of teens to catch him do drugs on tape. That footage was broadcast in the UK just last week.
The news camera, like the chopper camera used above, is similar in quality to that of the cannon camcorders used by average users. On location footage is similar to digital footage from a camcorder, they just use a modified television broadcast camera that was made portable. It’s the portable aspect of camcorders make them so useful for catching action moments. You can stick one in a helicopter or in the window of a speeding car. You can really get a first-person POV sense by watching a home video version of events. In movies, car chases and first person POV shots take hours to rig up. With video, you can do it at the spur of the moment. With a turn of the lens toward the street, you could find yourself with newsworthy material.
Still, it’s by chance that an average citizen captures breaking news. You can’t run around time with a camcorder 24/7 and expect to capture something worthwhile. You would probably be waiting a long time to find something as good as the video I posted. Sometimes, you have to leave the action chasing to the professional news crews.
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