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Questions. What if you don't have to worry about having a phone in your hand anymore? And what if the way you do journalism or tell stories becomes living the stories? What if moving from wearable journalism to mobile journalism? How would you feel?
I give you the answer that the master of this discipline, the reference point of this new current of journalism, gave me, or better, suggested.
"I'd feel free."
Here it is. So let's say it clearly. The mobile journalism has reached a technical level of incredible value. Fantastic apps, real smartphone software, crazy optics, computing power worthy of a computer, good editing apps for making movies. Microphones? Ever smaller and wireless, the protagonists of the narrative.
This is probably one of the reasons why I consider the mojo already in the closing phase. Now we have more and I'll explain why now. Smartphones have become very powerful handheld computers, they can begin to play the role of connector and transformer of video content that is produced by different machines. Think of drones, think of sports cameras, think of the DJI Osmo Pocket and similar products. Think about the cameras you can wear ...
In this period Indiegogo publicizes several, futuristic tools: the possibilities of movement for a journalist in action is becoming absolute. Certainly, some hardware are such futuristic projects that, from time to time, go to crash before seeing the light. But some arrive. And they seem destined to change mobile journalism forever.
This may be the pattern of the future. The smartphone set back to the role of computer that receives, processes, transforms and publishes what wearable devices on the front line, film while you're living a story to tell. The journalist is left with the task of mediating and building, with the values of professional ethics, an objective story of reality.
The cameras, however, we will have on them and with this we have to reckon. The first step was taken by Snapchat with Spectacles 3 which have two cameras and 4 microphones. They are a crazy tool for filming, they film round files that can be exported with any aspect ratio. On August 27th the TrendLoader will launch its glasses with cameras, the Alpha. They promise to let us do live streaming ... in addition to making full hd videos. With objects like these the perspectives, the points of view change, the visual narrative becomes at eye level and at man height.
Are you ready to free your hands and dress in journalism, changing video language again? I do.
(to be continued)