Philip Bloom and Khalid Mohtaseb discuss Cinematic journalism at NAB

This video is of a conversation that took place on the show floor at NAB 2010 between the infamous video guru Philip Bloom and DSLR video shooter Khalid Mohtaseb. Just in case anyone missed it there has been a vigorous debate here on this very site about the rights and wrongs of a montage of footage the Khalid showcased – the debate even made it all the way to the Huffington post.

In this video Mohtaseb canvasses the views of Bloom, who spent 17 years as a news cameraman, about the issues around the use of cinematic techniques for news shooting.

Khalid Mohtaseb and Philip Bloom discuss Cinematic journalism and DSLR video from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

Below – the video that started this whole debate has now had over 75,000 views on Vimeo –

Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage from Khalid Mohtaseb on Vimeo.

Thanks to Den Lennie and Scott Karlins of www.fstopacademy.com in shooting the conversation.

By Dan Chung

Co-founder of Newsshooter, Dan Chung has over 20 years of experience working behind a camera. His career started in photography but evolved into documentary, multimedia and broadcast TV. He shot the first news video on a DSLR and has been on staff at Reuters, The Guardian and CNBC. Dan heads up the editorial team at www.photogearnews.com.