New media and video journalism
Camp Video Journalism - the week-long Web video workshop in Chicago has ended - but the films from the events are still rolling out. The video above is David Dunkley Gyimah’s promo reel cut from footage that he and I shot in Chicago during our brief time together.
Special thanks go out to Michael Cooke and the Chicago Sun-Times crew (Toby, Brian, Jeremiah and all the rest) for hosting the week of training. True champs you are.
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Web Video journalism for newspapers
Fundamentals of camera usage, shooting sequences, interviewing and the importance of audio, simple story forms and basic edits. Participants will film and edit and post videos in group and individual critiques. This is a multi-day course for a small group of participants and includes a lot of hands-on coaching and feedback.
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Camp VJ student and Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer, John H. White talks about what he learned at Camp VJ
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Camp VJ Chicago has been a hit according to students and instructors who participated. Director of the J-School at Michigan State Jane Briggs-Bunting attended the fundamentals classes early in the week and blogged about she is leading the charge for her faculty to cross over as digital immigrants. Instructor and newsvideographer blogger, Angela Grant was enamored with her experiences with students, the Chicago venues and the work that Camp VJ students are able to produce in these two day classes. Her post says it all:
Camp videojournalism was huge success
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How to use free or low-cost Web services to enhance your paper’s online reporting and multimedia efforts.
The latest innovations and tools for everyday multimedia and web reporting. From sourcing, to podcasting, to Google map mashups - engage your journalists and communities with the latest tools and techniques.”
There is so much more that newspapers can do to commit acts of journalism with free or nearly free Web services. Google maps, Del.icio.us, Plazes, RSS feeds, Flickr slideshows, mobile podcasts and more. Robb will update the editors with a tour and live demonstrations of practical real-time Web reporting techniques that will enrich your everyday digital journalism.
It’s a great and popular topic that gets real results.
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Foundation.
Video journalism class will be fun next week: Students include Karl Gude, the dean of a big J-School, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Pull up a chair next to these students at the CAMP VIDEO JOURNALISM.
You can walk up - just give me heads up as the classes are reaching their max capacity.
Here’s the skinny.
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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.
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