Covid through a lens: how we made documentaries amid the pandemic Charlie Phillips
Every team in the Guardian probably thinks they’ve been affected the most by the Covid pandemic, but those of us in the video department believe we are the the ones who have had to dramatically change how we do our journalism the most.
You can’t make a good video down a phone line, it’s preferable by far to have two staff on a shoot, and you need to get close to people to provoke empathy in viewers. You need to travel to the story, you don’t really want contributors’ faces hidden when interviewed, and you can control filming conditions much better inside than outside.