EXCERPTS OF NEWS REPORTS FROM AL-JAZEERA ARABIC
Shown here only for education.

EXCELLENT STORY TELLING, STRUCTURE AND TRANSITIONS

Watch this report from Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Beirut Mazen Ibrahim and cameraman Elie Brakhya as they film in war-torn Kharkiv, Ukraine. Watch how they make transitions from five scenes - from the outside bombing to the women in her apartment to two women in the basement to the hospital and finally to the train station - using sound, doors, darkness.
Watch the closing scene where they let the scene and sound linger as we see the father’s worried face

Watch the documentary on Youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rmP0pj4ZFE

HIDING FACES
Filming women in Afghanistan under the Taliban when you can’t show their faces

CREATIVE TRANSITION
Watch how the cameraman zooms into the correspondent’s jacket and then zooms out to help create a transition from outside to inside

USING HEAD TURNS AS TRANSITIONS
Use head turns as natural transitions. Watch the example from Lebanon:

OPENING SCENE: HOMELESS IN LONDON
Watch how they use low angles and people walking by to make the “swish” cuts and to show no one cares