With 26 years of working in television, belonging to the generation "no longer young, but not old", 7X director Huynh Ba Phuc ( An Giang Radio - Television Station) clearly feels the changes and remarkable progress of technology in the profession. Mr. Ba Phuc remembers that 20 years ago, if you wanted to make a clip or report, you needed to mobilize a whole crew with many different types of machines, but the image quality was not necessarily good and smooth. Each time you went to film, there were 3 staff members, including: The person carrying the large camera; the assistant cameraman, the tripod, the equipment, and the technician to do the sound. After returning from filming, you had to do post-production and editing, which meant more people, machines and steps.
Nowadays, people do television work in the “5 in 1” style. A good phone has replaced the old bulky and heavy camera. In addition to being able to shoot up to 4K, the phone also has a very good anti-shake mode, helping the shot to be more vivid. The Super Wide lens can shoot very wide angles, creating a vast effect when shooting landscapes; the macro mode helps to shoot small objects more sharply and beautifully. The biggest strength of the phone is its compact size, helping to shoot unique angles in a narrow range, such as putting it in a loom to film weaving scenes, creating a very strong effect for the frame.
“After filming, I edit and finish the film right on my phone. At the scene, I can read the commentary in recording mode, add music to create background sound... The film editing software on the phone is very modern, helping me complete the product very quickly and with high quality, and send it to the broadcasting unit immediately (if it is a hot event that needs quick news). When making a documentary, I still use my phone, which is both mobile and compact, but still meets the quality requirements to compete and win the National Television Film Festival, Canh Dieu, organized by the Vietnam Cinema Association. With this "5 in 1" filmmaking method, it completely reduces human resources, machinery investment, and saves money for the unit. But to train the operating team, it also requires the process of "overcoming oneself" of each journalist" - director Huynh Ba Phuc shared.
An Giang Newspaper reporters cover the inauguration of Milestone 275. Photo: THANH HUNG
Modern technology has changed the way of doing journalism, as Mr. Phuc shared. Technology has also changed the way of thinking about journalism. Once, I followed a working group to give gifts on the occasion of Lunar New Year. While I was interviewing and gathering event data, an officer in the group quickly sent me a draft of the news. He boasted: “Just enter some basic data, the Chat GPT software returns a news like this, within a few seconds. If so, unit and local officers can completely produce news and propaganda articles without needing to be trained in practical journalism skills”. I imagine that the role of “journalists” seems to be shaken by extremely fast and intelligent applications.
Another time, the Chat GPT software left a deeper impression on me. My colleague in Ho Chi Minh City struggled to complete a memoir of several hundred pages about soldiers. When the book was published, he posted the content on several newspapers and social networks. Hearing a lot about Chat GPT, he was "curious" and typed his name and the book and received sentences exactly like his own writing style: "The software "suggested" me the ending like this: "When I rewrote those stories, I did not tell them like a journalist, but like a soldier recounting the memories of his unit. I believe that such pages will live longer - because they are written with all my heart. And that is also what I remember most, and am most proud of, in the two-year journey of making this book...". I was very surprised, unable to believe that modern technology has reached this level."
Technology has helped journalists to be more “relaxed” in their work both technically and mentally. Many journalists and reporters skillfully use smart journalism technology, AI in their work. Even broadcasters and editors are at risk of “unemployment”, because AI can completely replace flesh-and-blood humans, minimizing the cost of salaries, makeup, costumes or worrying about subjective psychological and physiological problems. When the speed of information competition with social networks and press agencies is calculated in seconds, bringing press products to the public as soon as possible is the top priority. The “news writing” process of less than 30 seconds of technology will of course “crush” journalists who sit and read documents, type, adjust sentences… for 30 minutes.
But I have a strong belief that the press will never lose its important role in society, no matter how things change, no matter how modern technology is. Social networks and the Internet "storm" with fake news, bad and toxic news spreading, the public will trust in a reliable "reference system" - the mainstream press. No software can completely change the specific labor of journalists. Because revolutionary journalism needs to be carried out by revolutionary journalists, the "vanguard" team on the ideological front; the bridge between the Party, the State and the People. Only the warm heart of a true journalist can spread the values of truth - goodness - beauty in social life, comply with the ethical rules of journalism and maintain the legality of the profession. No software can do this better than humans.
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