Expert views on video - a whole new genre?

A MEMBER reports to the Rate for the Job a type of work that's new to us: expert views on video. It seems that the way to get this work is to put in the hard yards of getting recognised as an expert: once you're in that position it could be an extra reward.

The member has been broadcasting and reporting in a technical field for years. Now a newspaper's picture desk is sending agency videos - presumably of occasions when things have gone wrong in that field. "I then put together a narrative explaining what seems to have happened, in a non-technical way, pointing out that until the official investigation reports back my contributions can at best be supposition." The videos are released in the UK, Australia and US and on the paper's YouTube channel.

"They put the package together. The essence is speed of response."

For that, they get £200 for a 10-minute Zoom call.

© Mike Holderness

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