Did you know that you can use the new VizEds to host your portfolio pages or video reels and get a widget that lets you post your work anywhere on the Web. Your blog, Facebook, wherever you want your work to play.
In this 3:46 video, I telestrate the powerful portfolio management features this new site makes possible.
All you need to know is how to click, cut and paste.
I am so proud to be teaching video journalism to more and more print reporters. And humbled by the amazing volunteer contributions of colleagues old and new that are donating their time and expertise to the Camp Video Journalism training workshops.
Today I am preparing two lectures that I will be giving in Bucharest October 2-3 for the World Editors Forum Master Class series but last week I was joined in the Chicago Sun-Times classroom by my former Sun-Times colleague, Carol Marin and some new CampVJ instructors: Danielle Guerra, Mark Flescher and Aaron Cahan.
Video tour: Newspaper design workshop in Cairo
I am in egypt this week teaching a series of newspaper design workshops at the beginning and advanced levels. This video and photo slideshow shows students from the first day designing, presenting and critiquing prototype newspapers they created as part of the rapid-prototyping section of the training.
A few demonstration video reports from the APME Newstrain video and new media training seminar I was teaching at for the last two days. We went over the fundamental techniques for shooting and editing films. We covered a lot of ground in a short time and got people out shooting early and often. Video training demands immediate hands-on practice. The journalists were given assignments in phases; to tell visual stories with B-Roll, how to conduct interviews and these films represent some of the surprising things newspaper journalists found when turned loose with video cams on the streets of Harrisburg.
Sound recording in the field is one of the high demands now for more and more digital journalists. So where are we with the state of the art? How important is great audio and what are people using for their VOX pops and field podcasts?
What makes great audio? Consider for a moment just how much technology, technique and expertise goes into making sound, uh, sound good. Here’s an INXS track posted by my friend Diana into her Yahoo! feed.
We take it for granted that vocals sound like this - as a society we have been raised on professionally produced audio for the last 40 years since the advent of FM radio.
It takes an incredible amount of technology and talent to make a vocal track sound this “natural.” The sound passes from the lips through an exquisite suite of electronic gear that processes it and compensates for many, many faults along the way.
Robb Montgomery works with top media houses in Europe, North America and the Middle East to develop new prototypes for news products and to design multimedia and cross platform newsrooms.
He also produces training that grows visual and digital literacy within organizations.
