Video Essay: Its Definition, Importance, Areas of Use

Document Type : scientific articles

Authors

1 Cairo University

2 Faculty of Arts, Cairo University

Abstract

This study aims to identify the video essay and identify its most prominent features, its definition, its stages of emergence, its importance, the most prominent advantages, disadvantages and challenges it faces, how to cite video articles and their areas of use, how to create video articles, how to distinguish between video summary and video articles, and the current situation witnessed by this new trend. Video articles It is considered one of the most important modern trends and an innovative type of scientific publishing material, as it presents scientific results using visual media and provides the researcher with all elements, which presents knowledge in an integrated form, as it is considered a kind of help in simplifying and facilitating information as it contains multiple methods other than the text article that is presented to the reader An indirect presentation in the text, unlike the video article, which provides a direct presentation, and this contributes greatly to the delivery of information in an easy and accurate way, which made there an urgent need for the spread of the video article, and databases and magazines began to encourage researchers to create a video article, as it opens a wide horizon for publication that can be exploited in In various fields, and despite what distinguishes the video article, which presents knowledge in integrated forms, it is This form of articles (video essay) has not received any kind of study and research in the Arab world, despite the possibilities offered by this form.

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