TikTok Newsletter 08
Mobile Reporting & Data Visualizations
Guten Tag.
Welcome back. Here is your weekly TikTok infusion.
Insta is really serious about copying TikTok. It is even changing its main feed (Forbes, August 19). Nevertheless: There’s no frontrunner to be found among the TikTok alternatives yet (Techcrunch, August 20). Trump (and his team) are on Triller. Whatever. Today we talk about:
☎️ Disrupting Mobile Journalism
🥕Inspiration for Data Visualizations
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☎️ Disrupting Mobile Journalism
A couple of weeks ago Marc Settle, BBC trainer and one of Europe´s leading mobile reporting experts, tweeted a TikTok video because it showed some “ingeniously creative shots” plus tutorials.
It is save to say that TikTok and all the other multi-clip video tools and platforms are once again changing the way videos are used for storytelling on the internet. Nearly 13 years after the very first iPhone videos produced and consumed on a mobile phone are coined by fast transitions, rapidly changing camera settings and angels, usage of sound and music and a decent amount of layers and cross references to actual memes or movements.
An old school video consisting of one visual layer and a traditional voiceover for the so called general public (the audience – as if there has ever been such a thing as a homogeneous group) will rather look antique and as boring and slow as a tv program from the 1970s to an audience in the 1990s. Even worse. Nearly no one will watch it, share it or interact with it out there on the internet.
As a mobile journalism trainer or journalist or content producer doing videos or photos these days you should be aware of a couple of tips, tricks and ideas presented to you by an army of people owning a smartphone, including influencers and school kids.
Here are some ideas to get you started. Otherwise try out Hashtags like #videotips #videography #iphonetricks #iphonehack #iphonecamerahacks
If you have a special trick or want to point our little community to great people to learn from please let me know. Thx!
🥕Inspiration for Data Visualizations
Ever since Lisa Rienermann and Anna Lena Schiller started doing infographics with food back in the days i am intrigued whenever you combine dry information with sensual materials. Ruby Perman is a graphic designer who designs tiny outfits made out of food. A great idea to get you inspired for doing some data viz food journalism on TikTok or elsewhere.
If you are not into food at all but like data let me point you to the guy who explains how to create a classical Gantt Chart In Excel in under 60 seconds. Or 60 minutes in my case.
Have a great weekend. Do not forget to tell a friend, a foe or your boss about this newsletter. See you next week.
Ciao.
Marcus