Video Journalism (multi-day, hands-on workshop)
Instructor: Robb Montgomery
GOAL: Journalists will learn the fundamentals of producing compelling Web video journalism.
Reporters will learn how to set up their cameras and audio gear to produce professional reports from the field; How to shoot and edit sequences, conduct interviews for film and practice with the editing workflow, story editing and principal technologies.
Working in small groups and using their cameras and editing tools, students will get hands-on experience gathering the elements to put together a news video for the Web.
September 18-19
PNA Foundation Training Room
Harrisburg, PA
Two things: A video that shows how a magazine article is laid out and samples of the handwriting of influential type designers - A “two-fer for Tuesday” as some DJ’s used to say in radio . . . you remember radio? Radio when it was programmed by human DJ’s in real-time don’t you?
The “hot single” is this fun time-lapse video that documents a designer’s work shaping up a magazine spread.
I found this on Swiss designer Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog.
Chicago Tribune editor quits her job today - and I found out through Twitter.
My dear friend Charles Apple does not Tweet on Twitter but he is somewhat surprised by all of the small talk taking place on the Internet - Who has time to Tweet, update your FB status and do all of the other things you are supposed to do?
I mean that is how I was alerted today that Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski was suddenly quitting the paper.
It just takes a few thumb clicks to insta-publish a breaking alert like this. that’s the power of microblogging. It’s instant.
The good news that some of this talk can be automated and since it is small talk - it can be done with your mobile while you are stuck in a boring meeting or sitting on a bus somewhere. So microblogging gives you the option to use time you were already wasting away.
OK - these German developers/designers get it when it comes to illustrating our digital media future. This is the new face of convergence - it is called Enkin.
Placemarks that show up in real time, intuitive visual interfaces, live location data . . . I thought I was pretty well spoiled using a Garmin 250w GSP to drive to Toronto and back this week, but these guys have me convinced that I should wait for a 3G phone that will soon do all that and even more useful things for helping me find my way around world cities.
As a nation that prepares to celebrates independence and summer fun tomorrow it has to be said not many U.S. journalists will be thinking about such lofty ideals. For more than few of them independence will mean liberation from their newspaper jobs, and quite possibly journalism as well.
I have been trying to keeps tabs on the journalism layoff phenom here in the States where newsroom leaders are struggling to reorganize their operations around the realities of consumer demand for news and the methods they will use to match their audiences.
Mostly this has taken the form of lopping off large sections of the editorial staff. Many other bloggers are saying that this is not leadership at all, but rather butchering.
I have been tracking these stories on my del.icio.us account for probably 18 months now and at the bottom of this post is the list of the last 30 items in that feed. (Subscribe to the RSS feed)
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
