One thing that the news media loves to do is film court proceedings. If they are not given permission to film inside the court, they wait anxiously outside the courtroom to film and interview anyone they can about a scandalous case. If they can get people who are involved in a case to talk about it and put it on the air, all the better. You see, people just have a natural interest in what is going on in an attention grabbing court case, especially if the person on trial is a celebrity.
Whenever court video recording is done there must be an application for permission first. Usually members of a news broadcast will ask for permission to do court videos. If you are asking for permission to do court video in individual states, you must file the appropriate forms. There will normally be questions on the form about why you want to do a court video that the judge will accept before giving permission. Normally Supreme court videos are not permitted. In recent years, some of the supreme justices have expressed interest in allowing Us supreme court videos to be taken. U.S. Supreme Court Justices are rethinking the allowance of US Supreme Court video though. When it comes to taking lower court video, usually only the judge and witnesses are allowed to be videotaped. Court video permission does not extend to the jury box and juvenile court is off limits to court video too.
Nowadays there is such a thing as video court conferencing allowed as well as video depositions. Video depositions are depositions that are done on film which are used as a visual record of communication that most law firms are now using. One advantage of court video reporting where people give testimony and deposition is the advantage they have over paper transcripts. You can see the person’s body language and attitude as well as their tone of voice on a video recording.
